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Re: Trying to decode text that is supposed to be ISO-8859-1 [message #175404 is a reply to message #175401]

Wed, 14 September 2011 13:37

Peter H. Coffin
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:07:27 +0200, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Peter H. Coffin wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:56:20 -0600, Bart Kastermans 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).
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> It's UTF-8 encoded representation of a false ISO-8859-1(? probably
>> CP1251, actually) [???]
>
> Windows-125_2_ (Western) corresponds largely with ISO-8859-1. Windows-1251,
> which is the proper name for that character set and encoding, is Cyrillic
> above 0x7F, and corresponds largely with ISO-8859-5.

Yeah, I know that. But there's 0x8n values in the hex that don't
represent in 8859-1 but do in CP1251. And there's a LOT more
charset-unaware stuff out there that assumes all the world is CP1251
than assumes everything is 8859-1.

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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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