Re: email character decoding

[Rene Veerman <rene.veerman.netherlands@xxxxxxxxx>]

i've also tried a commandline

iconv -f=Windows-1250 -t=UTF-8 enca.txt

but that returns the data unaltered :(

On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 7:37 AM Rene Veerman <rene.veerman.netherlands@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

as additional and background info, i can tell you that this data came from a gmail server which upon 'show original', gave me extra headers (that are not in the data, nor in the headers as downloaded through PHP's imap functions), which told me that the charset is windows-1250.

so this must come from Google's magical algorithms, which i find up to now impossible to reproduce :(

On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 7:33 AM Rene Veerman <rene.veerman.netherlands@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

no, it PHP iconv only supports nl_NL.utf8 and various en_*.utf8 according to

locale -a

on the Ubuntu command prompt :(

and using nl_NL.utf8 doesn't fix my problem either :(

I've also tried saving the file to disk and then using commandline 

enca file.ext

and

file file.ext

and

chardet file.ext

and

uchar file.ext

but all these will give me is that the file is encoded in ASCII.

On the upside, Ubuntu commandline

iconv

will support the windows-1250 character set,

but i have no way to detect which character set my document is encoded in, at this time :(

For your convenience, i've included the file in question as an attachment to this email..

On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 2:59 PM Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@xxxxxx> wrote:

On 21.11.2020 at 14:21, Rene Veerman wrote:

> I'm having a bit of trouble decoding a message that was written using the
> Windows-1250 character set, on an Ubuntu PHP installation that according to
> mb_list_encodings only supports the Windows-1251, Windows-1252 and
> Windows-1254 character sets.
>
> Can someone here please point me in the direction of a solution for this?

Maybe Windows-1250 is supported by your iconv()
(<https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php>)?

Christoph