TWOTHOUSANDANDTWENTYTHREE AND FUCKING MS EXCEL STILL CAN'T JUST OPEN UTF8 ENCODED FUCKING CSV FILES VIA DOUBLE CLICK OR OPEN DIALOG
#Mojibake " #detective "
:Alcea_Smile:
Move over #SherlockHolmes 😆
https://www.datafix.com.au/BASHing/2018-08-06.html https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wBH4APSRictfuhq8z/new-frontiers-in-mojibake
#mojibake #detective #sherlockholmes
#Fixing #broken #Mojibake
http://www.linestarve.com/tools/mojibake/?mojibake=ãŸãã‚ーãƒãƒ£ãƒ³ãƒãƒ«&unescape_html=auto&remove_terminal_escapes=True&fix_encoding=True&restore_byte_a0=True&replace_lossy_sequences=True&decode_inconsistent_utf8=True&fix_c1_controls=True&fix_latin_ligatures=True&fix_character_width=True&uncurl_quotes=True&fix_surrogates=True&remove_control_chars=True&normalization=NFC
This is a fun bit of #mojibake ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake ).
Looks like the Canadian government 🙄 can't handle French characters on their computers so they spelled "franþais" with a thorn þ ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter) ) and as we all know ;) that means...
#Mojibake 🥗 für 💯
"Mühlenstraße 8 A"
UTF-8: ü = c3 bc, ß = c3 9f
Auffällig die Rahmenzeichen.
DOS Codepage 850: ├ = c3
$ iconv -f cp850 -t utf8 <<< Mühlenstraße
Mühlenstraße
God why, Leute.
What I've accomplished this morning:
Fixed the character encoding of this #mojibake #KillerInstinct FAQ,
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/arcade/583590-killer-instinct/faqs/566
to use proper #UTF8:
http://inversethought.com/jordi/ki-flowchart.html
Putting my professional skills to good use!
#utf8 #killerinstinct #mojibake