What's this? (Chinese? Japanese? And what does it mean?)

blazar on 2007-04-06T15:00:17

The following text is extracted from a popup that escaped FF's blocker. Actually, it was broken and showed me the source code of the script running under the intended page, instead of the page itself. In it, I could recognize the stringified version of a Perl hashref, which sounds very suspect and makes me think of a program that is generated by something else itself. Whatever, I am so ignorant of web development matters...

Another thing I could see in that "page" was a long string of sequences like "%u42fc", thus I guessed they were unicode specifications, in hexadacimal. Then I wrote a tiny script to translate that string into HTML entities, so that I could paste it here; the result is as follows:

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The fact that the resulting charachters are somewhat homogeneous makes me strongly think my guess was right. Otherwise I suspect I would have more easily got text from many different alphabets. However I wonder what language it is, and what it means, if it means anything at all... in the hope that's nothing offensive or outrageous. But perhaps it's only a piece of an advertisement for Mr. Sparkle!


I don't know

mr_bean on 2007-04-07T07:12:52

I tried looking at it in a number of East Asian encodings, but couldn't get anything which looked like it was text. Perhaps it is random digits.