Deencode: Reverse engineer encoding errors

My first name is Clément. Throughout my life, I've encountered my fair share of bad printings of my name because of bad encoding management: the text is encoded (turned from an internal representation into a sequence of bytes) then decoded (turned from a sequence of bytes into an internal representation) using different schemes. This often leads to non-ASCII characters being mangled, replaced, or outright ignored.

For example:

The string "Clément"
└╴encoded as UTF-8 is 43 6C C3 A9 6D 65 6E 74
  └╴decoded as Latin-1 / Codepage 1252 is "Clément"

Some additional reading:

• https://mas.to/@yournameisinvalid
• https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/