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Reminds me of the Universal Cyrillic decoder [1] And old MySQL db dump I have has some values such as: !¡!HONDA POW Does anyone here have an idea if/h

• rspeer 9y ago
  In fact, ftfy already figures that text out! Here are the recovery steps that the website outputs: import ftfy.bad_codecs # enables sloppy- codecs s = '!¡!HONDA POW' s = s.encode('sloppy-windows-1252') s = s.decode('utf-8') s = s.encode('sloppy-windows-1252') s = s.decode('utf-8') s = s.encode('latin-1') s = s.decode('utf-8') print(s) And the decoded text is (for some reason): !¡!HONDA POW
  • 534b44a 9y ago
    Thank you, I'd also tested that but it seems to simply remove the mangled string part. Maybe it's impossible to recover it automatically after all :/
    • rspeer 9y ago
      No, no. That is the recovered text. Originally, the text had one non-ASCII character, an upside-down exclamation point. A series of unfortunate (but typical) things happened to that character, turning it into 9 characters of nonsense, the 9th of which is also an upside-down exclamation point. It looks like ftfy is just removing the first 8 characters, but it's reversing a sequence of very specific things that happened to the text (which just happens to be equivalent to removing the first 8 characters).