In the January 26 infodump, there are 60 Metafilter usernames which are not in ASCII; the encodings of 44 of them can be readily determined on internal evidence:
| ID | Name | Encoding | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5648 | più | latin1 | Spanish word (=more) | |
| 5747 | uttarò | latin1 | user's last name | |
| 9697 | Zippity Bop™ | utf8 | ||
| 10101 | АлексейСтасюкевич | koi8 | Russian name (Aleksei Stasyukevich) | |
| 10111 | ТрухинЕвгенийОлегович | koi8 | Russian name (Trukhin, Evgeniy Olegovich) | |
| 10113 | ШуплякАнатолийАнатольевич | koi8 | Russian name (Shuplyak, Anatolei Anatolyevich) | |
| 10115 | СтаниславЯнковский | koi8 | Russian name (Stanislav Yankovskii) | |
| 10117 | СоболевАлександрСергеевич | koi8 | Russian name (Sobolev, Aleksandr Sergeevich) | |
| 10132 | АрменМнацаканян | koi8 | Russian name (Armen Mnatsakanyak) | |
| 10209 | МарьянБеленький | koi8 | Russian name (Maryan Belen'kii) | |
| 10537 | ПоболеловАлександрИванович | koi8 | Russian name (Pobolelov, Aleksandr Ivanovich) | |
| 11257 | ВольдемарКисс | koi8 | Russian name (Vol'demar Kiss) | |
| 11711 | Евгений | koi8 | Russian name (Evgenii) | |
| 12167 | Собянин | koi8 | Russian name (Sobyanin) | |
| 12292 | РозумныйАлександрВладимирович | koi8 | Russian name (Rozumni, Aleksandr Vladimirovich) | |
| 12577 | Е.Ю.Невидимов | koi8 | Russian name (E. Yu. Nevidimov) | |
| 12720 | löwi | latin1 | German/Jewish name (=Levi) | |
| 13011 | · | latin1 | compare 13012 | |
| 13012 | • | utf8 | compare 13011 | |
| 13016 | ( · )( · ) | latin1 | compare 13017 | |
| 13017 | ( • )( • ) | utf8 | compare 13016 | |
| 14384 | DailyBread® | utf8 | ||
| 17571 | Oyéah | latin1 | see user's about | |
| 20567 | º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤ºº¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º | latin1 | ||
| 20909 | Mumle Gåsegg | latin1 | pseudonym of Johan Borgen | |
| 22199 | Axaxaxas Mlö | latin1 | reference to Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius | |
| 26427 | heavy metal ümlaut | latin1 | ||
| 28115 | skjønn | latin1 | Norwegian word (= beautiful) | |
| 29176 | ND¢ | latin1 | ||
| 33405 | La Môme Piaf | latin1 | title of French "biographical novel" (?) | |
| 35299 | umbú | latin1 | Spanish word (a kind of fruit); see user's about | |
| 39455 | Señor Pantalones | latin1 | ||
| 40159 | the black rabbit of Inlé | latin1 | Watership Down reference | |
| 44340 | Nathanial Hörnblowér | latin1 | ||
| 45324 | nímwunnan | latin1 | agrees with user's name field | |
| 49789 | Señor Grumpus | latin1 | ||
| 56335 | ausbürgern | latin1 | German word (=to expatriate) | |
| 56731 | L'homme armé | latin1 | title of French song | |
| 57798 | Zé Pequeno | latin1 | name of character in City of God | |
| 58544 | ®bin | latin1 | graphical wordplay on user's name, Robin | |
| 58902 | nicolas léonard sadi carnot | latin1 | French name | |
| 63007 | mathowie | latin1 | mathowie + non-breaking space | |
| 131560 | babbyʼ); Drop table users; -- | utf8 | SQL injection attack in jest, with "smart quote" | |
| 152318 | désoeuvrée | latin1 | French word (=unemployed) |
Another 5 support plausible guesses:
| ID | Name | Encoding Guess |
|---|---|---|
| 5079 | © | latin1 |
| 11350 | КисС.А. | koi8 |
| 13006 | ® | latin1 |
| 13083 | ™ | utf8 |
| 52094 | Qoölio | latin1 |
I'm not sure about the remaining 11:
| ID | Name | Encoding Guess | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6374 | lkòjhkòj | latin1? | jumble of right hand home row keys in Italian keyboard layout |
| 7090 | ¡ð¶Ì½Þ--·Q»¡ | ? | |
| 13010 | ¨⬠| ? | mysterious byte 0x82 |
| 13013 | ¹1 | latin1? | |
| 13084 | ‡ | ? | mysterious byte 0x81 |
| 13085 | Ù | latin1? | |
| 13113 | Holden· | latin1? | |
| 13204 | mick | ? | mysterious byte 0x81 |
| 30629 | ˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜ | utf8? | |
| 38566 | ®@ | latin1? | |
| 40491 | Ø | latin1? |
