Hello,
I have this text
401F0000C48FBAA6
and I know that corresponds to a word. It's not in hexadecimal (I've tried).
Do anyone knows in what base can it be? And what does it means?
A:
Dude, that totally looks like hex:
40 1F 00 00 C4 8F BA A6
Or it can be nothing...
Jean Paul
2010-09-28 15:52:44
It could be crap
Jean Paul
2010-09-28 15:57:23
indeed, but its convertion doesn't give any text..
aF
2010-09-28 15:59:32
It certainly *looks* like crap when I try to decode it here: http://home2.paulschou.net/tools/xlate/ Of course it could be a hex string of something that's encrypted...
FrustratedWithFormsDesigner
2010-09-28 16:02:33
yes, only could be something like that (I used that site allready), thanks!
aF
2010-09-28 16:08:10
Any chance it's a 64-bit pointer?
Joel Rondeau
2010-09-28 17:27:08
A:
How do you know it's not hex? Hex is just a numbering system, it doesn't imply a mapping between numbers and language. I assume you meant "I converted it to ASCII". Have you tried interpreting it as Unicode (UTF-8, 16, etc.)? Or other-endian? or as EBCDIC?
Alex Feinman
2010-09-28 16:59:05
A:
If compiling 64 bits code, the string '401F0000C48FBAA6' could just be an hexadecimal representation of a 64 bits (8 bytes) pointer to a string.
Or it could be little endian UTF32, two letters: U+1f40 U+A6BA8FC4 The first one, GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH PSILI. The second one garbage.
The byte 0x8F is usually found in western european languages encoded in UTF16. The pair 0xC4+0x8F could be 'ď'.
Manuel Gonzalez
2010-09-28 17:32:09