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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:

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â€"
… 
….
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?