cds-snc / cds-snc/platform-forms-client

French character encoding issues

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Description

## Description

Reported by client via support https://cds-snc.freshdesk.com/a/tickets/28787

- Problems displaying French characters when extracting GC Forms data using Python.
- Multiple fixes had to be added to the script, along with Bash commands to convert character encoding from Latin-1 to UTF-8.

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Research direction

Start by locating the Python extraction script and the Bash commands used to convert Latin-1 to UTF-8, then reproduce the reported French-character problem with GC Forms data. Done means extracted data displays French characters correctly without multiple manual encoding fixes.

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Assessment

Tech stack
bash, python
Domain
data
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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