Register Log In Wordsmith.org Forums General Topics Q&A about words identify the language Search Advanced Forum Search Forums Calendar Active Threads

Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 2 1 2 identify the language #60367 03/10/02 03:51 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 Sparteye OP Pooh-Bah OP Sparteye Pooh-Bah Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 What language is this, please? ÕæʵÐÕÃû: ËùÔڵصã: ÄêÁä: »éÒö×´¿ö: ÐÔ±ð: ÄÐÐÔ Ö°Òµ: Á´½Ó À´Yahoo!µØÇò´å´´½¨×Ô¼ºµÄÖ÷Ò³£¡ · ¸öÈËÖ÷Ò³: ûÓиöÈËÖ÷Ò³ · ÍƼöÍøÕ¾Á´½Ó: ûÓÐÍƼöÍøÕ¾Á´½Ó Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: identify the language #60368 03/10/02 12:39 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,542 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,542 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA Can we be assured that the display is accurate, and that I'm looking at what you're sending? On my screen it looks suspiciously like what I get when I have a file-type mismatch and formatting characters et al. get "translated" and presented as text - i.e. gibberish.. Not to deflect from your question, but we need to be sure we're all looking at the same symbols. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: identify the language #60369 03/10/02 01:35 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Just to clarify wofa's comment the first line I see is: Capital O with a tilde; lower case ae ligature; capital E with a circumflex; lower case Greek mu; capital Edh; capital O with tilde; capital A with tilde; lower case u with circumflex; colon. I have seen that sort of transmorgrification [sic] of Cyrillic character sets. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: identify the language #60370 03/10/02 04:21 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 1,094 Cincinnati & Loveland, Ohio, U... J Jazzoctopus old hand Jazzoctopus old hand J Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 1,094 Cincinnati & Loveland, Ohio, U... I see the same on me Mac, Faldage, but I agree with wofa that it's just the gibberish produced when you open one word processor file type in a different word processor that doesn't support the first. Plus, it says Yahoo! If it were a real language they would probably at least translate Yahoo into it's own characters. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: identify the language #60371 03/10/02 04:53 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 1,055 Berlin B belligerentyouth old hand belligerentyouth old hand B Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 1,055 Berlin I'd like to see a language that uses maths symbols like this one though, perhaps like so.. We are goin' to have some fun³! He's a real ½-wit. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: identify the language #60372 03/13/02 02:03 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 Sparteye OP Pooh-Bah OP Sparteye Pooh-Bah Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 It looked a bit Cyrillic to me too, but I have since learned that it is a transmogrification of some Chinese script. The "Yahoo" is in there because I copied it off of the Yahoo profile page of a bridge partner who doesn't speak English. Thanks anywho. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: identify the language #60373 03/13/02 02:31 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 some Chinese script When you start getting out of our simple little hundred odd character alphanumeribet you start needing more bits to cover all your characters. When you get into the tens of thousands of characters needed to be literate in Chinese... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: identify the language #60374 03/13/02 03:41 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 428 Cape Cod, MA, US F Flatlander addict Flatlander addict F Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 428 Cape Cod, MA, US So this brings up a question I've been wondering about for some time: how do keyboards work in pictographic languages (Chinese & Japanese in particular)? Do they have to "westernize" everything they type or is there some sort of additive system so they can build actual characters? Just a curious ugly american. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: nothing to do with identifying the language #60375 03/13/02 11:48 PM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 477 Sydney, Australia H hev addict hev addict H Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 477 Sydney, Australia Just a curious ugly american Oh, I'm sure you're not that bad ... There are no ugly faces, only ugly people." author unknown Hev Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: identify the language #60376 03/14/02 02:30 PM Joined: May 2000 Posts: 679 Somewhere outside New York R Rubrick addict Rubrick addict R Joined: May 2000 Posts: 679 Somewhere outside New York What language is this, please? It's Unicode Sparteye. The characters are from a webpage written in a common Asian language like Chinese or Japanese. Your web browser is set to read only 256-character ASCII (the alphabet - caps and lower case - number and special characters) which means that unicode (which incorporates ASCII Roman and Arabic symbols with Asian symbols) comes out on your screen as mostly gibberish. The only legible word amongst your sample is Yahoo! which is, of course, ASCII. In order to read these characters as they were written you will need to either install a unicode web browser OR you will need to adjust your browser preferences accordingly to recognise them. However, not all browsers hav this option. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 1 of 2 1 2 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,331 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 830 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 32 A C Bowden 15 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,542 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,916 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

Default Style BlackNTan Drab eBay GooG v2 infopop new dark new light original dark original stock rounded corners Slate snow sunny dropshadow theblues Touch Of Grey UBB.threads UBB.threads - Dark UBB.threads - Light UBBCentral UBBCentral - Crimson UBBCentral - Lime UBBCentral - Marshmallow UBBCentral - Mocha UBBCentral - Zen UBBT77 UBBT77 - Dark ubbthreads ubbthreads-dark Forum Rules · Mark All Read Contact Us · Forum Help · Wordsmith.org