There are many ways to encode information, in the process of which the message is converted into a combination of characters. It often happens that when you visit a web page, incomprehensible characters appear on it instead of letters.
It is necessary
a computer with Internet access
Instructions
Step 1
Use an online decoder to find out the file encoding and decode characters. To do this, open the browser program, follow the link https://www.artlebedev.ru/tools/decoder/. This decoder was created to decode e-mail messages to help users read obscure mail messages
Step 2
To find out the text encoding, copy it to the clipboard, then right-click in the decoder field and select the "Paste" command. Then click on the "Decrypt" button. The decoded text will appear in the field, and below the page will indicate the source encoding and the encoding into which the text was recoded.
Step 3
Download a special program for determining the encoding, as well as for transcoding text, for example, the Tcode program. To do this, follow the link https://it.sander.su/download.php click TCode link wait for file download. After the download is complete, unpack the archive into any folder, run the executable file
Step 4
Paste the text from the file for which you want to find out the encoding, or select the button on the "Open file" toolbar. Then click the button at the bottom of the Recode screen. The text from the file will be automatically converted to the desired encoding. The original encoding will be displayed in the status bar, and the character recognition percentage will also be displayed. When you hover over this line, you can determine which characters were not recognized by the program.
Step 5
Install AkelPad, which is capable of recognizing file encodings. To do this, follow the link https://akelpad.sourceforge.net/en/download.php and select the version you want to download. After installation, run the program. Paste the text from the file to define the encoding
Step 6
Select the "Encoding" menu and the "Define encoding" command, or call this command with the Alt + F5 keyboard shortcut. A window will appear in which the source encoding will be indicated, as well as the possibility of re-encoding the text into the encoding required for reading the text will be offered.
