Jul 1, 2011 · When that character gets encoded back to UTF-8, this results in the byte sequence EF BF BD . You cannot construct the original byte value from ...

Character name, REPLACEMENT CHARACTER ; Hex code point, FFFD ; Decimal code point, 65533 ; Hex UTF-8 bytes, EF BF BD ; Octal UTF-8 bytes, 357 277 275.

Aug 20, 2021 · Hi there. I'm reading serial data using the serial component. However, from time to time characters are replace by a white question mark on ...

Jul 27, 2012 · I'm running on OSX using node 0.8.3. Bytes from a working gzip it creates looks like this... 1F 8B 08 00 00 00 00 00 ...

Sep 25, 2020 · The follow-up question is, if this is a conversion to UTF-8, can I recover the binary string? I tried WIndowsANSI, which does change the data, ...

Feb 17, 2011 · The three characters correspond to the bytes EF BF BD (in hex), which is the utf-8 encoding of the Unicode character U+FFFD REPLACEMENT ...

Looking at the uploaded file content, it looks like the file content is treated as text, and several characters are replaced with `EF BF BD ... EF BF BD EF BF BD ...

Dec 29, 2017 · If we google for “ef bf bd” (chars from the beginning of the garbled image), we'll see that it's a “replacement character”, which is “used ...