In Season 12 Episode 07 “Great Money” in “The Simpsons” I noticed “gibberish” signs on a Russian spaceship several years ago. By chance today I decided to find and see if anyone had decoded them, but could not find any results.
I suspect this is KOI8-R, displaying as latin-1 or windows-1252. The image that I could capture is not very clear.
I have two interpretations of mojibake, as shown in this interaction with the Python 3 code interpreter:
>>> 'Ï‹ÏËÏÁ ¿Ä ÄÏÍ.†.'.encode('windows-1252').decode('koi8_r') '▀ © .├.' >>> 'Ï<ÏËÏÁ ¿Ä ÄÏÍ.×.'.encode('latin1').decode('koi8_r') '< © ..'
Looking at the code charts on Wikpedia, I can’t understand what characters like "<" and "+" are. I thought about how to rape and match it with some kind of spellchecking dictionary, but first I would like some help.
Is it possible to restore the original text or meaning? Or is it really gibberish?
(I appreciate if someone knows what he is saying, but I would like to see if this can be resolved through some kind of code.)
Edit: naive script:
codec_list = ['ascii', 'big5', 'big5hkscs', 'cp037', 'cp424', 'cp437', 'cp500', 'cp720', 'cp737', 'cp775', 'cp850', 'cp852', 'cp855', 'cp856', 'cp857', 'cp858', 'cp860', 'cp861', 'cp862', 'cp863', 'cp864', 'cp865', 'cp866', 'cp869', 'cp874', 'cp875', 'cp932', 'cp949', 'cp950', 'cp1006', 'cp1026', 'cp1140', 'cp1250', 'cp1251', 'cp1252', 'cp1253', 'cp1254', 'cp1255', 'cp1256', 'cp1257', 'cp1258', 'euc_jp', 'euc_jis_2004', 'euc_jisx0213', 'euc_kr', 'gb2312', 'gbk', 'gb18030', 'hz', 'iso2022_jp', 'iso2022_jp_1', 'iso2022_jp_2', 'iso2022_jp_2004', 'iso2022_jp_3', 'iso2022_jp_ext', 'iso2022_kr', 'latin_1', 'iso8859_2', 'iso8859_3', 'iso8859_4', 'iso8859_5', 'iso8859_6', 'iso8859_7', 'iso8859_8', 'iso8859_9', 'iso8859_10', 'iso8859_13', 'iso8859_14', 'iso8859_15', 'iso8859_16', 'johab', 'koi8_r', 'koi8_u', 'mac_cyrillic', 'mac_greek', 'mac_iceland', 'mac_latin2', 'mac_roman', 'mac_turkish', 'ptcp154', 'shift_jis', 'shift_jis_2004', 'shift_jisx0213', 'utf_32', 'utf_32_be', 'utf_32_le', 'utf_16', 'utf_16_be', 'utf_16_le', 'utf_7', 'utf_8', 'utf_8_sig',] source_str_list = ['Ï‹ÏËÏÁ ¿Ä ÄÏÍ.†.', 'Ï<ÏËÏÁ ¿Ä ÄÏÍ.×.'] for mangled_codec in codec_list: for correct_codec in codec_list: decoded_str_list = [] for s in source_str_list: try: decoded_str_list.append(s.encode(mangled_codec ).decode(correct_codec)) except (UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError): continue if decoded_str_list: print(mangled_codec, correct_codec, decoded_str_list)