From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sat Mar 17 2007 - 21:52:47 CST
On 3/17/2007 7:15 PM, Laurentiu Iancu wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to decipher a piece of text in an unusual encoding. The
> text is Cyrillic Mongolian and was received by my friend on Yahoo
> Groups. Its raw form is somewhat UTF-8-like and consists of byte
> pairs where the first is 84 hex and the second is mostly in the range
> 70...8F and occasionally outside the range (40, 42, 43, 91, and maybe
> a few other values). Besides these pairs, there are some single-byte
> ASCII characters and a couple of NCRs (barred o and straight u ү
> and ө). Although I call this raw, I do not know what
> transcodings Yahoo might have applied to the original text.
>
> I tried using the latter byte of the 84-xx pairs as an offset within a
> range of Cyrillic letters from code page 1251, but did not obtain
> meaningful words (looking them up did not produce any results).
>
> I am pasting below a blob of hex bytes broken down at ASCII
> boundaries, followed by the full text as viewed in ISO 8859-1. Can
> somebody please help me decipher this encoding?
>
It looks like a double byte encoding in the Shift-JIS style, code page
932 for example, which has Cyrillic characters. On a Windows platform
you can use http://www.unicode.org/unibook to view code page 932.
I've decoded the first few letters.
A./
> Thank you,
> Laurentiu
>
>
> 84 40 84 7e 84 74 84 85 84 85 84 74 84 70 84 74 20
0410 043D 0434 0443 ... etc.
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