Timeline for Help! What's my encoding? ¡×ךwg¿¿uþ}0ã×/Œz0îÏ–þžwóuÜ„
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| Jul 12, 2023 at 16:58 | history | edited | samm82 |
added computer-puzzle tag
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| Mar 26, 2015 at 14:43 | comment | added | Matt Taylor | @AshutoshNigam I'm afraid that this was all contrived, I was brushing up on character encoding and the idea for the puzzle came to mind, wondering what would happen if a 7-bit ascii stream was interpreted as an 8-bit stream, then ANSI gave me a character set in which all of the resulting characters from my stream were uniquely identifiable (which was the reason for using underscores instead of spaces in my message) | |
| Mar 26, 2015 at 14:29 | comment | added | r3mainer | @kasperd Yes, I did (one of them is invisible). It's not a URL anyway :-) | |
| Mar 26, 2015 at 14:23 | comment | added | kasperd |
@squeamishossifrage Did you by any chance miscount the characters? I see 4 characters in šwg but only 3 characters in ps:.
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| Mar 26, 2015 at 13:45 | comment | added | Ashutosh Nigam | @MattTaylor I presume you got this issue while sending unicode message from your computer program to sms gateway right? (as sms use either ascii or utf-7) | |
| Mar 26, 2015 at 13:40 | vote | accept | Matt Taylor | ||
| Mar 26, 2015 at 13:20 | answer | added | r3mainer | timeline score: 16 | |
| Mar 26, 2015 at 13:14 | comment | added | Ashutosh Nigam | @MattTaylor If possible, could you please share at least one word of minimum 3 char size in the message? | |
| Mar 26, 2015 at 12:51 | comment | added | Matt Taylor | @Ian, not true at all. Ashutosh is on the right lines, and you could solve this puzzle by hand if you wanted | |
| Mar 26, 2015 at 12:40 | comment | added | Ian MacDonald | From the look of it, my first instinct is that this puzzle will be (close to) impossible for people that aren't using a Mac. | |
| Mar 26, 2015 at 11:55 | comment | added | Matt Taylor | Yes, when it's decoded, the message is in English, and should be clear | |
| Mar 26, 2015 at 11:54 | comment | added | Ashutosh Nigam | Is the message in english? | |
| Mar 26, 2015 at 11:16 | comment | added | r3mainer |
I'm wondering if this is a garbled URL: ¡×ךwg¿¿... → https://...
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| Mar 26, 2015 at 10:50 | history | edited | A E | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Add distinctiveness to title
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| Mar 26, 2015 at 9:24 | answer | added | Ashutosh Nigam | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 26, 2015 at 9:02 | review | First posts | |||
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| Mar 26, 2015 at 9:01 | history | asked | Matt Taylor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
