Re: Reading Middle Eastern Characters
Re: Reading Middle Eastern Characters
- Subject: Re: Reading Middle Eastern Characters
- From: Elliotte Harold <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 04:46:55 -0500
Christopher Nebel wrote:
Correctly determining which of the dozens of conceivable text encodings
a given hunk of data uses is essentially an AI-complete problem -- that
is, you need human-level intelligence, and even most humans would have a
hard time with some of the fringe cases.
Oh, I don't think it's nearly that hard. Simply spell check the source
text against a variety of dictionaries in a variety of encodings and
languages until you find one that matches. Cryptographers have been
doing this for decades without solving the AI problem. They have all
sorts of algorithms for determining whether a brute force description of
a message with a particular key actually represents the clear text or
random gibberish.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold email@hidden
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