On 2019-04-21, at 19:53:04, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>> ...
>> and the content is definitely not Cyrillic:
>> 0 16 32 48 64 80 96 112 128 144 160 176 192 208 224 240
>> 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 a0 b0 c0 d0 e0 f0
>> 0 0 & - � � � � � { } \ >> 0
>> 1 1 � � / � a j ~ � A J 1
>> 2 2 � � � � b k s � B K S
>> 2
>> 3 3 � � � � c l t � C L T
>> 3
>
> How are those listings obtained? Might the thing presenting those listings be
> interpreting the iso8859-5 data as the local character encoding and thus
> misrendering?
>
They're the Unicode "Replacement Character":
https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/fffd/index.htm
HTML Entity (hex) �
UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBF 0xBD (efbfbd)
Thanks,
gil