I was trying to decode a json file that has escaped unicode text /uHHH .. the original text is Arabic my research lead me to the following code using python. s = '\u00d8\u00b5\u00d9\u0088\u00d8\u00b1 \u00d8\u00a7\u00d9\u0084\u00d9\u008a\u00d9\u0088\u00d9\u0085\u00d9\u008a\u00d8\u00a7\u00d8\u00aa' ouy= s.encode('utf-8').decode('unicode-escape').encode('latin1').decode('utf-8') print(ouy) the result text will be: ØµÙØ± اÙÙÙÙÙØ§Øª which still needs some fix using online tool to become the original text: صور اليوميات Is there any way to perform that fix using the above code? Would appreciate your help guys, thanks in advance Continue reading...