if you run this in python
print 'Äppleß','Äppleß'.decode('latin-1').encode('utf-8')
thats a mojibake (garbled text due to incorrect encoding/decoding) but python does not raise an error.
I want it to throw an error in the case of a mojibake.
I have heard of things like this that can help: https://ftfy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#
any other ideas or experience on shortcuts?