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A Field Guide to Japanese Mojibake

by polm23 on 10/31/21, 4:29 AM with 5 comments

• by thriftwy on 10/31/21, 9:15 PM

  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

• by makeitdouble on 11/1/21, 1:42 AM

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