# decode bytes using windows-1252 then replace common characters b = b'He said: \x93Hello\x94\x85' s = b.decode('cp1252') # yields: He said: “Hello”… (0x85 → U+2026) # normalize import unicodedata s = unicodedata.normalize('NFC', s) print(s)
There is no fix except for the user to update their operating system. In practice, over 99% of modern devices support these characters. times new roman font to unicode converter
This practice—using mathematical or stylistic variant characters for aesthetic effect—is officially discouraged by the Unicode Consortium. It breaks searching, screen reading, and text processing. A string like “H𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼” contains three different script blocks; a screen reader may pronounce “H” (Latin) and then “mathematical bold sans-serif e, l, l, o.” A search for “Hello” will fail. Textual integrity fragments into decorative shards. # decode bytes using windows-1252 then replace common