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by alricb 612 days ago
Martine [1] is a series of French-language children's book. They have simple titles like "Martine à la ferme" (Martine at the farm) or "Martine fait du camping" (Martine goes camping).

"Martine écrit en UTF-8" is what you get if you interpret the UTF-8 string "Martine écrit en UTF-8" (Martine writes in UTF-8) as Latin-1. It's not as common as it once was, but that kind of encoding issue used to be encountered fairly often by French speakers on the Web.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martine_(character)

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Pedantry: the image seems to have been taken from an older cover of "Martine vive la rentrée"

https://www.casterman.com/Jeunesse/Catalogue/vive-la-rentree...

EDIT: for a short course in contemporary french slang, one could do worse than https://www.google.com/search?q=martine+parodie&udm=2

(my favourite being "Martine and her parodies")