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Re: Trying to decode text that is supposed to be ISO-8859-1 [message #175399 is a reply to message #175395]

Wed, 14 September 2011 10:25

alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX
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El 14/09/2011 3:56, Bart Kastermans escribió/wrote:
> I have downloaded a file that claims to be ISO-8859-1. In it (among
> many other stuff) are the bytes shown here (first column is the
> character, the second is ord(character), the third and fourth are binary
> respectively hexidecimal representations of the character.
>
> P / 80 / 01010000 / 50
> l / 108 / 01101100 / 6c
> z / 122 / 01111010 / 7a
> e / 101 / 01100101 / 65
> \303 / 195 / 11000011 / c3
> \205 / 133 / 10000101 / 85
> \313 / 203 / 11001011 / cb
> \206 / 134 / 10000110 / 86
>
> This is supposed to be ISO-8859-1 encoded, and should encode the
> character U+0148 (\v{n}; Latin small letter n with caron).

Funny... I think that character (ň) does not even exist in ISO-8859-1:

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/148/index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1#Codepage_layout

And in fact the 0x85 and 0x86 positions are empty in ISO-8859-1.

The mb_detect_encoding() function suggests that the string is actually
in UTF-8 and contains two chars: 0xC385 and 0xCB86 (Åˆ). The "Åˆ" string
is exactly what you get if you encode "ň" in UTF-8 and try to display as
ISO-8859-1, so I guess that's what the data creator is doing.

> Does anybody have any idea how I could decode this (or how it was
> encoded in the first place)? Any suggestions would be greatly
> appreciated.

To begin with, you cannot use ISO-8859-1 as target encoding if you want
to use U+0148.

Now, if you decide to switch to UTF-8... well, I'll report back if I
find something more precise :)

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		Trying to decode text that is supposed to be ISO-8859-1 By: Bart Kastermans on Wed, 14 September 2011 01:56
		Re: Trying to decode text that is supposed to be ISO-8859-1 By: Peter H. Coffin on Wed, 14 September 2011 03:42
		Re: Trying to decode text that is supposed to be ISO-8859-1 By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Wed, 14 September 2011 12:07
		Re: Trying to decode text that is supposed to be ISO-8859-1 By: Peter H. Coffin on Wed, 14 September 2011 13:37
		Re: Trying to decode text that is supposed to be ISO-8859-1 By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Tue, 20 September 2011 22:14
		Re: Trying to decode text that is supposed to be ISO-8859-1 By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Wed, 14 September 2011 10:25

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