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@AKelleyCSA AKelleyCSA commented Feb 12, 2025

made a step that uses iconv to convert the hint into UTF-8 and the puzzle solver must then convert it back into ASCII

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Did you look at the file your script created?

Comment thread solutions/UTF-8.sh

set -euo pipefail

# Secret is in $PUZZLE/UTF-8.txt. Youll have to decode the file from UTF-8 into ascii
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Uh, any text that can be represented in ASCII is exactly the same bytes when encoded in UTF-8.

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Maybe use something like UCS-4BE which would actually be different bytes.

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