Cyrka (degibberish tool)

Cyrka is a GUI tool to decode Cyrillic texts improperly transcoded from Windows charset.

Requirements

In order to install and run Cyrka you should have the following packages installed on your system:

• GTK+ library
• Ruby bindings to GTK+

You can install required packages with the following command

On Gentoo Linux

$ sudo emerge -uva dev-lang/ruby dev-ruby/ruby-gtk2

On Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-gnome2

Installation

Download the script below, make it executable, place it in a directory available via PATH, optionally create a launcher.

Usage

Copy an improperly transcoded text and paste it to the topmost field of Cyrka window. Hit 'degibberish' button. Recovered text should appear in the bottom field.

Source files

cyrka.rb

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