Say I have the byte array c1 83 2a 9e f9 ff ff ff
(just an example) and I have no idea what the format is. It could be characters in ASCII, UTF-8, could be WORD/DWORD integers in Little or Big Endian, could be 2 floats or 1 double or just anything else. I feel like that would be a situation that occurred extremely often to every reverse engineer.
So my question is: Is there a commonly used approach for that kind of problem? Most likely a command line tool that takes the array and displays it in all the different possible representations? Or do people just rely on the given representations of the programs they currently use (ollydbg, cheat engine, hex editor or what ever they happen to use)?