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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:42:49 -0500
>=20
> > Given a series of mystery bytes, can I test them against differen=
t
> > charsets, and see what gibberish Emacs comes up with?
>=20
>    (decode-coding-string "\344\270\255" 'utf-8)  =3D=3D>   "=E4=
=B8=AD"

I'd actually suggest decode-coding-region, because it doesn't require
copying the "mystery bytes" into a string, something that might chang=
e
the bytes.