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I knew a person who could intuitively decipher Mojibake that resulted from mishandling single-byte encodings, like this:
KOI8-RCP1251CP866← decoded as...
KOI8-R Привет рТЙЧЕФ Ё╥╔╫┼╘
CP1251 оПХБЕР Привет ╧ЁштхЄ
CP866 ▐Ю╗╒╔Б ЏаЁўҐв Привет
↑ encoded to...
Thankfully, it's not a frequent occasion when we have to resort to sorts of frequency analysis nowadays.

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Re^3: create clone script for utf8 encoding
by Aldebaran (Curate) on Jan 03, 2019 at 11:05 UTC

    Interesting...I didn't know that Mojibake had a name but do have a sense of it. I think of it like being in the weeds.

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