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Misadventures in text encoding - woodwojr - 2009-10-14
From an article on a historical British battle in Africa:
"Less than thirty minutes after the battle started, the British line had been pounded into a rough inverted 鏑 with the short leg secured to the camp and the long leg running along a donga, or dry creek bed."
That's quite some pounding.
Later on, an encoding issue that I can only begin to imagine echoes the unimaginably obnoxious practice of replacing the first letter of a word with kanji: "British High Commissioner in South Africa, Sir Henry Bartle Frere had adopted what came to be known as a 吐orward policy."
吐orward policy? Really?
There are a few other issues, but it's mostly the idea of British battle lines being pounded into elaborate kanji that tickled my fancy enough to post.
~J