title: In what world would \\u00c3\\u00a9 become é?
body: <p>I have a likely improperly encoded json document from a source I do not control, which contains the following strings:</p>
  
  <pre><code>d\u00c3\u00a9cor
  
  business\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 active accounts 
  
  the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Made in the USA\u00e2\u20ac\u009d label
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>From this, I am gathering they intend for <code>\u00c3\u00a9</code> to beceom <code>é</code>, which would be utf-8 hex <code>C3 A9</code>. That makes some sense. For the others, I assume we are dealing with some types of directional quotation marks.</p>
  
  <p>My theory here is that this is either using some encoding I've never encountered before, or that it has been double-encoded in some way. I am fine writing some code to transform their broken input into something I can understand, as it is highly unlikely they would be able to fix the system if I brought it to their attention. </p>
  
  <p>Any ideas how to force their input to something I can understand? For the record, I am working in Python.</p>