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

From	"Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.php
Subject	Re: Trying to decode text that is supposed to be ISO-8859-1
Date	2011-09-13 22:42 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<slrnj708l4.bek.hellsop@nibelheim.ninehells.com> (permalink)
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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) display of the CORRECT UTF-8 for the string you're
hoping it should be. Someone basically doubled-up on the conversion to
make that.

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    of the crucial support beam to a heavy, dangerous, unbalanced 
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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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