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Re: Trying to decode text that is supposed to be ISO-8859-1

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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.


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Re: Trying to decode text that is supposed to be ISO-8859-1 "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2011-09-13 22:42 -0500
  Re: Trying to decode text that is supposed to be ISO-8859-1 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-09-14 14:07 +0200
    Re: Trying to decode text that is supposed to be ISO-8859-1 "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2011-09-14 08:37 -0500
      Re: Trying to decode text that is supposed to be ISO-8859-1 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-09-21 00:14 +0200

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