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8bit

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Table of legacy 8-bit encodings, and command-line decoding tool

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Last observed20 Oct, 16:12 UTC

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Version 0.9.0 documentation

8bit

Generate a mapping from legacy 8-bit encodings to Unicode.

HTML output: https://tripleee.github.io/8bit/ (QWERTesy of https://github.io/)

See the HTML page for an explanation of the output format and additional usage instructions.

Command-line use

You can pass in a "mystery string" and have it decoded in various ways.

bash$ 8bit ï»¿
'W\x8b\xab': ['cp037', 'cp273', 'cp500', 'cp1026', 'cp1140']
'\x8b\xaf\xa8': ['cp437', 'cp850', 'cp857', 'cp858']
'\xef\xbb\xbf': ['cp1252', 'cp1254', 'cp1258', 'iso8859_9', 'iso8859_15', 'latin_1', 'palmos']
'\xdd\xfd\xb9': ['hp_roman8']
'\x95\xdf\xc0': ['mac_croatian']
'\x95\xc8\xc0': ['mac_iceland', 'mac_roman', 'mac_romanian', 'mac_turkish']
'\ufeff': ['utf-8']

There is also a --table option which lets you generate the web page or a textual rendering of the same information.

License

MIT License

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Version	Published	Direct dependencies	Open version
0.9.0	7 Jun 2026	0

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Ecosystem: PyPI
Registry license: The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2014 tripleee Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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pkg:pypi/8bit

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First observed: 20 Oct 2026
Last observed: 20 Oct, 16:12 UTC

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