Fix garbled text & convert encodings
Paste garbled text to recover the original, or drop a file to detect its encoding and save it as UTF-8.
Fix garbled text
Convert a file
How to use
- Paste garbled text above; the likely original appears.
- Drop a text or subtitle file below; its encoding is detected and previewed, and you can pick another.
- Press Save as UTF-8.
Questions
Why does text get garbled?
It was saved in one encoding and read in another: UTF-8 read as Windows-1252 turns é into é.
When is it unrecoverable?
If characters became ‘�’ or ‘?’, the original bytes are gone.
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