Looks like Section 9 forgot to set the correct encoding...
Posted Jun 1, 2012, 2:44 PM UTC
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Or they opened a binary file in a text editor. Since they're cyborgs, maybe they can actually understand the file that way. Fridge brilliance.
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From Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex episode 20, 2:45.
See: Mojibake
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What am I looking at?
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It looks like what I like to call "UTF-8 fail", i.e. UTF-8-encoded text viewed using some variant of ASCII (though the text in the screenshot may very well use some other character encoding). Try going to the Japanese Wikipedia and changing the character encoding (Web Developer > Character Encoding in Firefox) to for example Western (ISO-8859-1) to get an idea of what it can look like.
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character encoding issues over a larger amount of text tend to have more pattern to them. this looks more like an ascii dump of some binary file.
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I'm not sure if it's a bad thing. I understand as much as in original, but it's easier to read now :)
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They should just change system locale to the native language of that text, alternatively they could change the app locale to the native language of that text. That should fix the problem. Don't forget to also restart the computer...
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... I'm sorry, I'll go back to my IT desk now.
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All I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead.
Hey, you a... want a drink?