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Software Gore

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Deliberately bad software or bad design is not software gore, it must be something unintentional

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What language is this? (programming.dev)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

French.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Looks like mojibake to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

yes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Mojibake.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Antarctic

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I'm guessing a language that the device doesn't have a proper font for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

My guess is it's UTF-8 Unicode (any non-Latin language) being interpreted as some standard for 8-bit text. (Windows CP-1252 for example, but not that one because it doesn't have the block made of lines character)