A Field Guide to Japanese Mojibake

72 points by polm23 4 years ago · 6 comments

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thriftwy 4 years ago

Similar guides exist for Russian encodings: http://vault.pmpc.ru/vf/16011417/6a7b205721142511253e4d581.p...

Then they got extended to detect writing systems: https://i.stack.imgur.com/ed1Co.png

yaroslavvb 4 years ago

It has a name too -- крякозяблики (kryakoziabliki)
dotancohen 4 years ago

Terrific, thank you!
TIL that Cannada has its own writing script!
abg n glcb.
- bmn__ 4 years ago
  
  <http://enwp.org/Kannada>

makeitdouble 4 years ago

The technical notes are particulary interesting, as we don't usually explore what it takes to force a specific encoding for a bloc.