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My application for macOS archives emails from email clients and IMAP accounts. One user got an email from a Windows user and archived the email from Mail. My app reads the data directly from the hard disk.

The user has an email with some a nice mojibake:

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/8QYfl.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/8QYfl.png)

I can identify a few of the characters:

â€° → ä
Â¸ → ü



But I can't figure out whhat the original encoding is. I made myself an encoding table for the characters "ö ä ü ß" and my data is not in that table:

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/mfDJw.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/mfDJw.png)

Code:

```
dim theLeft as string = "ö ä ü ß"
for currentEncoding as integer = 0 to Encodings.Count - 1
 
 dim EncodingInternetName as String = Encodings.Item(currentEncoding).internetName
 
 if EncodingInternetName.IndexOf("iso") = -1 and EncodingInternetName.IndexOf("windows") = -1 then Continue
 dim newString as string = DefineEncoding(theLeft, Encodings.Item(currentEncoding)) '<---convert
 newString = ConvertEncoding(newString, Encodings.UTF8)
 Result.Add(EncodingInternetName + " " + newString)
 
next
```

Does anyone have an idea what encoding was used for the Mojibake?

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