A Field Guide to Japanese Mojibake

[polm23]

https://www.dampfkraft.com/mojibake-field-guide.html

[thriftwy]

Similar guides exist for Russian encodings: http://vault.pmpc.ru/vf/16011417/6a7b205721142511253e4d581.p...

Then they got extended to detect writing systems: https://i.stack.imgur.com/ed1Co.png

[yaroslavvb → thriftwy]

It has a name too -- крякозяблики (kryakoziabliki)

[dotancohen → thriftwy]

Terrific, thank you!

TIL that Cannada has its own writing script!

abg n glcb.

[bmn__ → dotancohen]

<http://enwp.org/Kannada>

[makeitdouble]

The technical notes are particulary interesting, as we don't usually explore what it takes to force a specific encoding for a bloc.