mojibake.py

# trying to solve this user's mojibake
# so far no encoding pairs or encoding quads have done it.

# https://www.reddit.com/r/softwaregore/comments/1gdlcjb/all_i_did_was_hit_print/

# Notes:
# * It's an all caps font.
# * It's encoding consistantly, E is always 8...
# * It feels ebcdic-ish, but not sure how.
from encodings.aliases import aliases

# uppercase only font, dont know which is right
txts = ['ZJ\\\\', 'Zj\\\\', 'zJ\\\\', 'zj\\\\']

done = {}
for k, v in aliases.items():
    done[v] = k

# allt he unique encodings
enc1 = list(done.values())
enc2 = list(done.values())

# after one mojibake
done1 = set()
# after one or two mojibakes
done2 = {}

# calculate mojibakes
for txt in txts:
    for src1 in enc1:
        for dest1 in enc1:
            try:
                t1 = txt.encode(dest1).decode(src1)
            except Exception as e:
                continue
            if t1 in done1:
                continue
            done1.add(t1)
            done2[t1] = (dest1, src1)
            for src2 in enc2:
                for dest2 in enc2:
                    try:
                        v1 = t1.encode(dest2).decode(src2)
                    except Exception as e:
                        continue
                    v1 = v1.upper()
                    if v1 in done2:
                        continue
                    done2[v1] = (dest1, src1, dest2, src2)

# no unprintables
keys = {}
for key in done2.keys():
    keys[''.join(i for i in key if i.isprintable())] = done2[key]

# in unicode order, becasue i love myself
for key in sorted(keys.keys()):
    print(key)