Problem with Character Encoding

[joechu]

Hello everyone,

I am familiar with C, C++ and Java and just started diving into
C# .NET but ran into a recent snag. I have been trying to add a
function to a custom mp3 tag editor that can convert "gibberish" like
"¿ï±îºà ¿ôÀþÆ"to it's original form in Korean as "ìš¸ê¹Œë´ ì›ƒìž–ì•„" (I
understand that if you don't have the Korean language pack installed
you won't be able to see the original form, sorry). I am not very
familiar with string encoding but I have tried to read some articles
(a lot went over my head) and forum posts on similar subjects but
nothing really addresses the problem or really helps me to solve the
issue. Any examples, or if someone could lead me in the right
direction would be extremely helpful. Thank you.

Joe

 

[Luc E. Mistiaen]

the only very important thing to know (understand), is in what encoding your
gibberish bytes are (is that UTF-8 or whatelse).
Then it is easy enough to use ProperEncoding.GetString (Gibberish) where
ProperEencoding is formed from the above knowledge.

/LM

Hello everyone,

I am familiar with C, C++ and Java and just started diving into
C# .NET but ran into a recent snag. I have been trying to add a
function to a custom mp3 tag editor that can convert "gibberish" like
"¿ï±îºÁ ¿ôÀݾÆ" to it's original form in Korean as "??? ???" (I
understand that if you don't have the Korean language pack installed
you won't be able to see the original form, sorry). I am not very
familiar with string encoding but I have tried to read some articles
(a lot went over my head) and forum posts on similar subjects but
nothing really addresses the problem or really helps me to solve the
issue. Any examples, or if someone could lead me in the right
direction would be extremely helpful. Thank you.

Joe

 

[JC]

the only very important thing to know (understand), is in what encoding your
gibberish bytes are (is that UTF-8 or whatelse).
Then it is easy enough to use ProperEncoding.GetString (Gibberish) where
ProperEencoding is formed from the above knowledge.

/LM


Hello everyone,

I am familiar with C, C++ and Java and just started diving into
C# .NET but ran into a recent snag. I have been trying to add a
function to a custom mp3 tag editor that can convert "gibberish" like
"¿ï±îºÁ ¿ôÀݾÆ" to it's original form in Korean as "??? ???" (I
understand that if you don't have the Korean language pack installed
you won't be able to see the original form, sorry). I am not very
familiar with string encoding but I have tried to read some articles
(a lot went over my head) and forum posts on similar subjects but
nothing really addresses the problem or really helps me to solve the
issue. Any examples, or if someone could lead me in the right
direction would be extremely helpful. Thank you.

Joe

Thank you LM.

 

[JC]

the only very important thing to know (understand), is in what encoding your
gibberish bytes are (is that UTF-8 or whatelse).
Then it is easy enough to use ProperEncoding.GetString (Gibberish) where
ProperEencoding is formed from the above knowledge.

/LM


Hello everyone,

I am familiar with C, C++ and Java and just started diving into
C# .NET but ran into a recent snag. I have been trying to add a
function to a custom mp3 tag editor that can convert "gibberish" like
"¿ï±îºÁ ¿ôÀݾÆ" to it's original form in Korean as "??? ???" (I
understand that if you don't have the Korean language pack installed
you won't be able to see the original form, sorry). I am not very
familiar with string encoding but I have tried to read some articles
(a lot went over my head) and forum posts on similar subjects but
nothing really addresses the problem or really helps me to solve the
issue. Any examples, or if someone could lead me in the right
direction would be extremely helpful. Thank you.

Joe

Thank you LM.