Recently I came across a problem statement to deal with a CSV file which has several encoded characters.

For example, there were several words which was coming in a weird way like the ones below.

To solve this, I did the below steps. Let us assume the column name of the fields which has this encoded character is description.

Then using pandas, the below steps will help.

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("data.csv")
df['description'] = df['description'].apply(unescape)

This fixed the problem. I hope this tip is useful. Feel free to comment below if you have any questions or feedback.