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Fix garbled Hebrew

Turn ×©×œ×•× back into שלום. Paste the broken text; the tool tries the common Hebrew encoding mistakes and picks whichever produces real Hebrew.

UTF-8 bytes were read as Windows-1252
Fixed
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What each kind of garbage means

Looks likeWhat happenedFix
שלו×UTF-8 bytes decoded as Windows-1252 (or Latin-1)Re-decode as UTF-8
ùìåíWindows-1255 (Hebrew) bytes decoded as Latin-1Re-decode as Windows-1255
□□□ or □□□□The font has no Hebrew glyphs, or the bytes were replaced before savingNot recoverable here; change the font, or find the original file
םולשThe letters are right but in reverse order (a PDF or design tool exported them backwards)Reverse the Hebrew runs
????The Hebrew bytes were already replaced with "?" before this copy was savedNot recoverable; the original bytes are gone

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