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minus-squareAnaeijon@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·17 hours agoI know about it, but didn’t recognize the code. So I assumed, they encoded some text to make it harder to read. So I tried decoding it. Turns out, if you decode this in UTF-16, it turns into a japanese sentence 契ȑ璝寣䇘앖噣삈 Which means (according to DeepL) The sound of the wind rustling through the trees And now I’m confused, why.
minus-squarepipe01@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 hours agoThat’s not Japanese, there’s some Chinese and Korean characters in there too. Turns out if you decode random bytes as UTF chars you will probably get a CJK character lol
I know about it, but didn’t recognize the code. So I assumed, they encoded some text to make it harder to read. So I tried decoding it.
Turns out, if you decode this in UTF-16, it turns into a japanese sentence
Which means (according to DeepL)
And now I’m confused, why.
That’s not Japanese, there’s some Chinese and Korean characters in there too. Turns out if you decode random bytes as UTF chars you will probably get a CJK character lol