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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 =
by 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 agoThank 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 agoNo, 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).