Troubleshooting generic file encodings
Some notes on troubleshooting different encodings for sent/received files. Table Encoding å ä ö Å Ä Ö UTF-8 \c3\a5 \c3\a4 \c3\b6 \c3\85 \c3\84 \c3\96 latin1 \e5 \e4 \f6 \c5 \c4 \d6 CP437 \86 \84 \94 \8f \8e \99 CP850 \86 \84 \94 \8f \8e \99 Notes WINDOWS-1252 / CP-1252 is a superset of latin1 All encodings are supersets of ASCII, so \20=SPACE and \0a=NEWLINE Sometimes you will encounter the “ANSI”-encoding. That name is a lie, and means that the creator is stupid in the head....