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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)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by andioop@programming.dev to c/software_gore@programming.dev

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

French.

[–] airbreather@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like mojibake to me.

[–] frankenswine@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

yes

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Mojibake.

[–] pkill@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Antarctic

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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)