Graham Dumpleton added the comment:

>From memory, the term sometimes used on the WEB-SIG when discussed was 
>transcode.

I find the idea that it needs 'fixing' or is 'incorrect', as in 'fix the 
original incorrect decoding to latin-1' is a bit misleading as well. It was the 
only practical way of doing things that didn't cause a lot of other problems 
and was a deliberate decision. It wasn't a mistake.

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