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Task: Russian text garbled by wrong codepage (UTF-8 displayed as CP866). Solution: Encode as CP866 then decode as UTF-8 to reveal the flag as spelled-out Russian numbers.

$ ls tags/ techniques/
cp866utf8encoding_mismatchcodepage
Detect encoding mismatch from garbled charactersEncode as CP866 then decode as UTF-8
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