[slapresta]

The whole part about being "hacked" is hilarious. It seems way more plausible that Skype internally uses fonts with special glyphs for its icons, and that when it couldn't find them for whatever reason, it defaulted to the next font on the font stack, which had Chinese characters on the codepoints where those glyphs were expected to be.

[larrik]

I've had it happen to me, except I see some random wingdings instead of Chinese characters. Being "hacked" never crossed my mind.