What Character Encoding Is This?

Question

I need to clean up some file containing French text. Problem is that the files erroneously contain multiple encodings within the same file.

I think some sections are ISO8859-1 (Latin 1) but other parts have text encoded in single byte characters that look like 'extended' ASCII. In other words, it is UTF-7 encoding plus the following:

• 0x82 for é (e acute)
• 0x8a for è (e grave)
• 0x88 for ê (e circumflex)
• 0x85 for à (a grave)
• 0x87 for ç (c cedilla)

What encoding is this?

Answer 1

That's the original IBM PC encoding, Code page 437.