: Use a tool like the Universal Cyrillic Decoder or an encoding repair tool. These allow you to paste the "messy" text and toggle through different source encodings (like Windows-1251 or UTF-8 ) until the words become readable.
If you need to retrieve the actual meaning behind a string of garbled text, you can try the following steps: : Use a tool like the Universal Cyrillic
: Advanced editors like Notepad++ allow you to open a file and manually "Convert to UTF-8" or "Encode in ANSI" to see if the characters shift back into their correct form. Why It Still Happens : Use a tool like the Universal Cyrillic