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Finding characters
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 8:17 am
by matthijs
How do you I find out which characters are these:
There's probably some table or online converter tool somewhere? Or some real geek out here who recognizes these?

My own guess, since they where found on some website, that they might have been accents or quotes
Re: Finding characters
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 10:40 am
by Apollo
Alas, they don't mean anything without knowing what encoding you use
However they look like incorrectly encoded UTF-8 characters. The first is incorrect (it's not valid UTF-8), but the byte sequence 0xE2 0x80 0xA6 (2nd line) is the "three dot" character (that is "…", one char!) encoded in UTF-8. The 3rd line is the same + an extra normal dot, so that would be "…."
But then again, it might just as well have been iso-8859-1 encoding, and in that case they mean just the characters as they are displayed in your post...
Re: Finding characters
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 10:47 am
by superdezign
Try changing the encoding on the page that they are displaying on, in order to see if they show up differently.
Re: Finding characters
Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 1:30 am
by matthijs
@superdezign: I don't have the original page, that's the problem. So I need to reverse-engineer/guess.
@Apollo: it could be the three dots. I will check it out. Is there some character map or online tool to help translate different characters? For example, how do you find out those byte sequences?