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Re: [engelang] Unicode test

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:35 PM, MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@hidden.email> wrote:

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Mike S. <maikxlx@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:48 PM, John Cowan <cowan@hidden.email> wrote:
 

John E Clifford scripsit:



> email.  the archive is crap (mojibake?  -- Japanese for crap?)

Literally it means "character transformation" and refers to the
display of the wrong characters due to encoding or labeling issues.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake .


At that article, be sure to take a look at the image of the package sent from France to Russia addressed in mindlessly hand-written mojibake. 

The caption said the sender used the address from an email, not knowing it had suffered mojibake. Ignorantly, but not mindlessly.

TBH I would expect mindful Westerners in the process of transcribing strings of (mostly) Roman diacriticated uppercase vowels to think, "this doesn't seem like Russian -- where are the backward Ns and Rs?".  But maybe you're right.