Strange Text.

[Shi Tong]

Hello All!

Not been here for a long time.. my life just got complicated.

I was wondering (and this is wondering for a friend) who asked me what THIS means:

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Looks super odd to me, and I dont know half the characters.

ANY help would be well appreciated and thanks in advance!!

Tongy.

[SiMaKe]

Interesting mix of characters - a few Japanese(?), obscure (at least to me and my dictionaries - maybe they are variants) Chinese and a collection of symbols.

Also no punctuation. But I think I recall learning that punctuation was not always used in Chinese.

What is the source of this "passage"? Is it possibly the Chinese analog of the English gibberish found at the bottom of some (unsolicited) emails?

Or is it yet another area of knowledge about which I don't have a clue!

[Shi Tong]

SiMaKe,

It's an odd situation- it's one of my friends has a Chinese friend who suddenly sent them this text.

She was really unsure what on earth it meant.. I was also completly stumped (as you can imagine).. and she asked me if I could find out... She was wondering if it was some kind of code (hah)

I was thinking it COULD be substituting words with the right pronunciation for common zi in order to hide some meanings.

I'll dig some more about this and see what i can find.. though. I agree- it's totally weird!

[renzhe]

Nah, that looks like a messed up encoding. No text would use so many totally obscure characters. Are you sure that your friend used the correct encoding to read it? It could be Big5 interpreted as unicode, or GBK interpreted as Japanese or who knows what nonsense.

I get such text when my cheap MP3-player tries to read utf-8 mp3 tags.

I can't make sense of it phonetically either, but the fact that many characters are missing does not help there.

[SiMaKe]

I think renzhe hit on it. I just did a small test by encoding a simplified Chinese text using a Japanese one (Shift JLT). The result looks remarkably similar to the OP text.

[Shi Tong]

ahh.. so it's the font?!

Yes I can see why this would make sense!!

I'm going to fiddle with it and see if i can get it to work in some other format

THANKS!

[roddy]

Life does that, doesn't it.

It's not the font, it's the encoding. Look at a page of Chinese text online, then use the View > Encoding menu to switch from UTF8 to BIG5 or something and you'll see what's happening. Get your friend to go back to the original and play around with those and it should become readable - unless it was the sender that somehow messed up and that's what was actually sent.

Oh, and congratulations on knowing half of the characters

[gougou]

As a reference for others experiencing similar problems: Mandarin Tools has a site to fix these encoding issues, which I've used successfully in the past. In this particular case, unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be of any help though.

[creamyhorror]

I'd be pretty surprised if anyone here knew half those characters. Maybe a well-educated native speaker, but certainly not any intermediate learner.

I see that kind of gibberish all the time when looking at pages in the wrong encoding. Big5 <--> GB or EUC-JP <--> SJIS <--> UTF-8. In Japanese it's called mojibake.