Not in any particular order, but here is a list of really useful text butchering utilities, that I keep in the same grab-bag as ftfy: csvclean[1], unidecode[2],

Not in any particular order, but here is a list of really useful text butchering utilities, that I keep in the same grab-bag as ftfy: csvclean[1], unidecode[2], transliterate[3], charset-normalizer[4], cchardet[5], phonenumbers[6][7], iconv[8], enca/enconv[9]. [1] https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/1.0.3/scripts/csvclean.html https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/1.0.3/scripts/csvclean.html [2] https://pypi.org/project/Unidecode/ https://pypi.org/project/Unidecode/ [3] https://pypi.org/project/transliterate/ https://pypi.org/project/transliterate/ [4] https://pypi.org/project/charset-normalizer/ https://pypi.org/project/charset-normalizer/ [5] https://pypi.org/project/cchardet/ https://pypi.org/project/cchardet/ [6] https://pypi.org/project/phonenumbers/ https://pypi.org/project/phonenumbers/ [7] which is a python port of Google's libphonenumber: https://github.com/google/libphonenumber https://github.com/google/libphonenumber [8] https://linux.die.net/man/1/iconv https://linux.die.net/man/1/iconv [9] https://linux.die.net/man/1/enca https://linux.die.net/man/1/enca