[whitecream]

For what it's worth, if the image they used is representative of the other variable names they found, then that line of reasoning doesn't make sense - the names are just gibberish characters in Chinese, and some even have random radicals and other characters thrown in. This seems more like the type of strings you get when you take a bunch of random valid UCS-2 code points.

[jtl999]

Pretty sure I've seen Chinese or other "strange" characters as an artifact of certain code obfuscation in the past.

[perl4ever]

I had an issue on my Windows computer with some UTF-something text displaying as Chinese characters a while back...