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• Anaeijon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

  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.

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  • pipe01@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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    • Anaeijon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      OK, yes, that obviously makes sense, considering the amount of these Charakters.

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• orbitz@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thanks for the link I never remembered the numbers to know if it was for that or not…course been online long enough to know that’s the code (style) shown in comments. Was a lot of comments at one point.

  My only unsureness of the code is cause I’m old and miss newer stuff so had to check to be sure.

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• MinoriMirariRProductions@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  oh wow that is dumb you are right.

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