How can I convert hebrew ASCII symbols into unicode ?

Question

I've received a mail (in hebrew), but all symbols are represented in the wrong ASCII format (gibberish consisting of weird vowels). Do any of you know a (simple) program to convert it to unicode format ?
My windows should support it, it is the archaic online mail program that cannot read it.
I found such no program using Google.
thanks

Answer 1

You can convert your gibberish into Hebrew here:



http://gibberish.co.il/gibberish.html



(Google עברית ג'יבריש to find many similar tools: https://www.google.com/search?q=%D7%A2%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%AA+%D7%92'%D7%99%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A9 )

Answer 2

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is a format that only defines 127 characters. The gibberish consisting of weird vowels is not ASCII. It's most likely encoded using the ISO-8859-1 encoding or the ANSI code page 1252, which are character encodings that use only 1 byte per character and therefore only support Western European languages.



The problem here isn't actually your email program. Your email program is dutifully downloading the set of bytes specified in the email. The problem is your web browser, which is incorrectly interpreting those bytes. You can tell your browser which encoding to use. Hopefully, that should fix it. The email probably uses UTF-8 but it might be using UTF-16 or UTF-32.



In Firefox: click on the Firefox button, go to Web Developer->Character Encoding to change the encoding.



In Internet Explorer: go to View->Encoding.



In Chrome: click on the wrench, go to Tools->Encoding.

Answer 3

Thank you all for your replies and opinions.