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Character encodings on CipherInspector fall into two categories: data and display.

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Data encodings

Data encodings are character encodings that are typically used to store byte streams. For all data encodings, the data is first decoded to a Uint8Array and then converted to a string based on its encoding type (ASCII, Latin1, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32). This step takes precedence over any other ciphertext settings, unless the widget evaluates the ciphertext bytes rather than the encoded text data. Supported data encoding types:

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Display encodings

Display encodings are character encodings that are already in display text format. Display encodings are not decoded before analysis and are analyzed as-is, unless the widget is designed to evaluate the ciphertext bytes. Supported display encoding types: