&νβσπ;
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For some reason I'm still on a bunch of mailing lists at my university even though I graduated last year. Today I got an email that had the following text:
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information sessions for students studying:
•&νβσπ;Software & Web Development
•&νβσπ;Information Systems
•&νβσπ;Telecommunications & Networking
...Searching Google for &νβσπ; brings back 700 results. What is this strange series of characters and where does it come from?
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Given it starts with & and ends with ;, It looks like some kind of psuedo-html control code that was mangled by character encodings or a badly written parser. Or both.
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nbsp, perhaps?
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Specifically, it's " " written in the font Symbol. (Or else the Unicode characters that look the same, like were used in the thread title.) Equivalently, it can be seen as " " with English letters replaced by their Greek phonetic equivalents.
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@Daniel15 said:
For some reason I'm still on a bunch of mailing lists at my university even though I graduated last year. Today I got an email that had the following text:
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information sessions for students studying:
•&νβσπ;Software & Web Development
•&νβσπ;Information Systems
•&νβσπ;Telecommunications & Networking
...Searching Google for &νβσπ; brings back 700 results. What is this strange series of characters and where does it come from?
Are you using Lotus Notes? I wonder if there is a Lotus Notes expert somewhere that could help...
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@ais523 said:
Specifically, it's " " written in the font Symbol. (Or else the Unicode characters that look the same, like were used in the thread title.) Equivalently, it can be seen as " " with English letters replaced by their Greek phonetic equivalents.
You devil! You must be one of those sudoku people!
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@ais523 said:
Specifically, it's " " written in the font Symbol. (Or else the Unicode characters that look the same, like were used in the thread title.) Equivalently, it can be seen as " " with English letters replaced by their Greek phonetic equivalents.
Assuming the original post was copy&paste, the later is more likely. Probably somebody forgot they had Greek keyboard when they typed in the HTML.
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@Bulb said:
Probably somebody forgot they had Greek keyboard when they typed in the HTML.
More likely it's an MS Word to web-based CMS copy & paste operation that went south. Word's bulleted lists by default use the Symbol font for their bullets and include a non-breaking space after the bullets...
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@Ragnax said:
More likely it's an MS Word to web-based CMS copy & paste operation that went south.
You'd think that, but then there's:
and especially:
Looks like sites that push everything through a "convert-to-locale-phonetics" filter, and then people copy&pasting from that.
<п>this is a paragraph with a<бр />linebreak</п>
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@TarquinWJ said:
http://www.liveinternet.ru/tags/%CD%E0%F1%E0%E4%EA%E8+%E4%EB%FF++%EA%EE%ED%F2%F3%F0%EE%E2/
There is no way I'll click on a link that ends in ".ru".
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@ais523 said:
More likely it's an MS Word to web-based CMS copy & paste operation that went south. Word's bulleted lists by default use the Symbol font for their bullets and include a non-breaking space after the bullets...
Ah, I see. That's quite interesting.Are you using Lotus Notes?
Nope - My university uses some Hotmail thing which I forward to my personal Google Apps account.