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D0 Bb D1 82 D0 Be D0 Bb D1 81 D1 82 D0 Be Another option for those with linux is to use the command line. with it, you can find out the encoding of an incomprehensible string, and also change it to the correct one. to reveal encoding of a file: 1. enca mypoem draft.txt. to reveal encoding of a atring with chardet: 1. 3d"=d0=a1=d0=b5=d0=b3=d0=be=d0=b4=d0=. U fffff: supplementary private use area a u 100000 u 10ffff: supplementary private use area b. code positions per page. 128 · 256 · 512 · 1024. display format for utf 8 encoding. hex. · decimal · hex. (0x) · octal · binary · for perl string literals · one latin 1 char per byte · no display. unicode character names. You have link with some chars converted to percent values to create url safe for internet but this is not correct string for filename because system may not use % in filenames.