> If people still understand english in some form (a good bet. We still understand latin. English has more reach than latin did at its peak) understanding charsets is pretty easy. Just assume its a shift cipher.
IIRC, Coptic is directly descended from Ancient Egyptian, but the Rosetta Stone was still needed to decipher hieroglyphics.
It won't be as simple as you think. The problem will be more like: here's 10TB of partially corrupted binary data, find the text when you don't know the encoding (oh, and the text may be compressed with an algorithm you also don't know).
IIRC, Coptic is directly descended from Ancient Egyptian, but the Rosetta Stone was still needed to decipher hieroglyphics.
It won't be as simple as you think. The problem will be more like: here's 10TB of partially corrupted binary data, find the text when you don't know the encoding (oh, and the text may be compressed with an algorithm you also don't know).