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A Field Guide to Japanese Mojibake (dampfkraft.com)
72 points by polm23 1692 days ago
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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

It has a name too -- крякозяблики (kryakoziabliki)
Terrific, thank you!

TIL that Cannada has its own writing script!

abg n glcb.

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