Layer name in AI Files

I Have a problem when reading and parsing Adobe Illustrator files. When a layer name contains German Special Characters like ä, ö, ü, Illustator uses a encoding which I do not understand. The following Byte-Codes are written for ä, ö, ü:
"ä" -> 0xE280B0
"ö" -> 0xCB86
"ü" -> 0xC2b8
Does anybody know how to decode these Byte codes? Itßs not Latin1, not Unicode, so: what is it?
Thanks for any hint*

Stoeffu,
There may be a coding error; the code used for ä seems to be the UTF-8 code for ‰, as it appears from this web page (third column, second column being Nokia S80):
http://aspector.com/~brf/Cyfer/technical.html
ä
0xE4
0xC3A4
0x2030
0xE280B0
According to this web page, http://bytes.com/topic/postgresql/answers/173340-codepage-win1252, 0xE280B0 is also a WIN1252 code, but not for ä
Or it may be a secret Illy code.
In any case, is it not possible to reverse the code, and get something reasonable, such as this?
"ä" -> 0xE280B0 -> ae
"ö" -> 0xCB86 -> oe
"ü" -> 0xC2b8 -> ue

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