Convert nonsense ASCII encoded characters into another encoding

Have you ever had a situation where someone from abroad has sent you some text, but because an application doesn’t support proper international encoding it comes out as a random string of nonsense? The little JavaScript applet below will let you convert that nonsense back into the original language it came from, and politely ask Google to try and translate it back to English.

Simply enter the nonsense text into the text box below, select an encoding, and click Convert. If you don’t know which encoding to use, try a few!