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TIL: When fixing mojibake, use ftfy.fix_and_explain() to understand how it’s fixing a piece of text

TIL: How to create flag emojis for countries in Python

TIL: Use the regex library to get Unicode property escapes in Python

TIL: Use Unicode property escapes to detect emoji in JavaScript

Operations on strings don’t always commute

Is uppercasing then reversing a string the same as reversing and then uppercasing? Of course not.

Notes on reading a UTF-8 encoded CSV in Python

Some notes on trying to do this in a way that supports both Python 2 and 3, and the frustration of doing so.

Another example of why strings are terrible

Pop quiz: if I lowercase a string, does it still have the same length as the original string?