The text in a file, email, on a web page can be typed in any language and saved in various computer encodings. The point is not only the variety of modern encodings, which are more or less ordered, but also the storage of documents that are primarily of historical value. There are also cases when a document has been saved several times in different encodings. If the text opens in the form of an incomprehensible set of characters, it must be rendered in a readable form.
Necessary
Computer, text editor, online decoder, special encoder programs
Instructions
Step 1
If the text is not readable on the web page, select the encoding in the browser. To do this, click the left mouse button in the "View" menu on the "Encoding" item. In the drop-down list, go through the available encodings until the text becomes readable. The first Russian encoding KOI-8 appeared on computers, when they were not yet personal, with the UNIX operating system. It is used on computers with UNIX-like operating systems - for example, Linux. The next was the Russian encoding DOS-866 for the MS-DOS operating system from Microsoft. With the release of Windows 3.0, Win-1251 came into play. Currently, UNIX-like systems use ISO 8859-5 encoding. In addition to them, you can sometimes find alternative coding 855, DKOI-8, GOST and Bulgarian coding. It is very rare to find on documents the MacCyrillic encoding, which is used only on Macintosh computers.
Step 2
Save the text in a text file, then open it in a text editor, if necessary, try opening the document in several different text editors. File managers can also determine the encoding in which the file is saved and convert it to the required encoding.
Step 3
Place some or all of the text, depending on its size, into an online decoder (decoder, mail decoder, Cyrillic convector). After decoding, you will be offered several options for the text, as well as the name of the encoding in which the file is supposedly located.
Step 4
To determine the encoding and, if necessary, re-encoding the text, you must use special programs "re-encoders". These programs are quite popular on the Internet and are easy to use, while some of them allow you to work with the maximum possible number of encodings used and provide the maximum available opportunities for working with them.
