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UTF-8 Decoders fail to decode the encoded strings

I have some encoded values values which I believe is UTF-8. Now I dont really know if it is UTF-8 or not because other online tool and steps to decode UTF-8 is not working, BUT an open source tool ...
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Printf in gawk with the correct encoding?

I'm wondering: can gawk printf in any format besides ASCII? Currently, I'm using gawk match() to search through some UTF-8 text. When I go ahead and print out the matches gawk finds, it ends up like ...
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Symbols are lost after conversion from UTF-8 to ISO8859-1 and back to UTF-8

I have a file with properties in French. I would like to convert it to ISO8859-1. But after conversion, some symbols are lost. What is wrong? > cat fr.properties VAR2="élément n’a" > cat fr....
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Accented character issue

I have a bunch of websites encoded in UTF-8. They contain accents and those weird n's with the squiggles over them and all kinds of fun stuff. When I try and open them in any text editor, even ...
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File names garbled in rar archive, possibly double utf8 encoded? Can't figure out how to reverse

I'm trying to restore the uploads folder of a wordpress installation. The folder went through some combination of ftp or sftp transfer and got compressed by rar. (I don't know the exact process, it ...
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Convert .txt. file from windows-1251 to utf-8

I'm trying to read the cyrillic text that is stored in .txt format. Once I open it with OpenOffice, it is OK. Once I open it with Notepad++, it shows unreadable symbols. Setting Windows-1251 prior ...
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WinMerge & Encoding

I have a problem with WinMerge (or more specific: WinMergeU). I have several php files that have the same content up to the chosen encoding. How can I tell WinMerge to ignore the encoding? If this is ...
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Need a simple program to convert to utf-8 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicates: App to convert from ANSI to UTF8 on windows Batch-convert files for encoding or line ending under Windows I need to find a program to convert a Windows-1250 encoded file to ...
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Firefox Garbled Text

In FF 3.5.7 on Vista I am getting garbled text like below on some web pages. The obvious answer is to go to View > Character Encodings > then select UTF-8. However, it turns out I am already using ...
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