What character encoding is this?

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%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F%20%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C

+2 A:

URL encoding. And then some other character encoding underneath, possibly UTF-8. URLDecode it and see what you see.

bmargulies 2009-11-20 02:07:06

+1 A:

Looks like URI escaping. Each set of two hex digits after a % is the ordinal of the character.

Roger Pate 2009-11-20 02:07:30

That's not a character encoding. That's percent encoding. It's usually used to pass "special characters" through URL's.

BalusC 2009-11-20 02:07:54

+18 A:

That is URL-encoded Russian. It says (translated from Cyrillic): Sovetskaya Gavan which means, literally, Soviet Harbor.

Update: steps I followed:

Used this URL encoder/decoder
Used Google translate (I chose automatic detection of 'from' language, but I knew it was Russian)
Google search pointed to a city in Russia and its Wikipedia entry.

Gonzalo 2009-11-20 02:07:57

how'd you figure that out? :D

CrazyJugglerDrummer 2009-11-20 02:12:22

I updated my answer to explain the 2 steps.

Gonzalo 2009-11-20 02:13:18

Lol, +1 for speed and accuracy.

BalusC 2009-11-20 02:15:58

Wow, very impressive

stimms 2009-11-20 02:17:18

+1. Daaang! [I am not worthy bow]

Robert Harvey 2009-12-02 00:13:38

URLDecodes to советская гавань. Looks legit but I don't know the language.

David Thibault 2009-11-20 02:08:39

That's Cyrillic, under each used in Russian.

BalusC 2009-11-20 02:09:08

+1 A:

"советская гавань" in UTF-8, URL-encoded.

Zano 2009-11-20 02:09:55

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