Decode E-mail Chinese Characters English Outlook iPhone Mojibake

If you get an e-mail with Chinese characters instead of Latin characters see how to decode below.

Simplified Example

# file.py

import sys

print unicode(
    sys.argv[1], 'utf-8').encode('utf-16be')")

$ python file.py
    "㱨瑭氠摩爽≬瑲∾㱨敡搾਼浥瑡⁨瑴瀭敱畩瘽≃潮瑥湴ⵔ祰..."
    > content.html
$ google-chrome content.html

HTML Output

$ python file.py
    "㱨瑭氠摩爽≬瑲∾㱨敡搾਼浥瑡⁨瑴瀭敱畩瘽≃潮瑥湴ⵔ祰..."
<html dir="ltr"><head>
<meta
    http-equiv="Content-Type"
    content="text/html; chars...

Python Version

$ python --version
Python 2.7.16

Updated on 2019 Apr 23.

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