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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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Just a curious ugly americanOh, I'm sure you're not that bad ... There are no ugly faces, only ugly people." author unknown Hev
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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.
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