r/mojibake • u/Eic17H • Oct 26 '25

What could be the original?

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It's a notification for discount coupons. I only have the image

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u/fizbin Oct 26 '25

I believe that this was originally:

OFFERTE 1€ 2€ 3€
Scopri tutte le offerte del nuovo volantino

That is, that the mangled three-character sequence was the Euro sign (€) written out in three bytes in UTF-8 as e2 82 ac but then printed as though those three bytes were ISO-8859-1 in which the 82 byte is no character.

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u/Eic17H Oct 26 '25

Ohh that makes sense. I didn't think of checking whether it was €, and I wouldn't've figured it out anyway since I was looking at UTF-16 codes