{"id":6980,"date":"2012-09-12T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/russian-postmen-fix-an-error-caused-by-an\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T21:16:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T21:16:39","slug":"russian-postmen-fix-an-error-caused-by-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/?p=6980","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6980 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/text-mode.org\/?attachment_id=6981'><img width=\"121\" height=\"96\" src=\"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tumblr_ma6hqcUJzn1rpiyaso1_1280.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Russian postmen fix an error caused by an ASCII-illiterate e-mail client in France. New aesthetic, anyone?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>This letter was sent to a Russian student by her French friend, who manually wrote the address that she received by e-mail. Her e-mail client, unfortunately, was not set up correctly to display Cyrillic characters, so they were substituted with diacritic symbols from the Western charset (ISO-8859-1) The original message was in KOI8-R.<\/p>\n<p>The address was deciphered by the postal employees and delivered successfully. Some of the correct characters (red) were written above the wrong ones (black).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Encoding problems are usually called Mojibake (from Japanese) but other languages refer to it as\u00a0monkey&#8217;s code, letter salad, chaotic code and even little bushes. Read more at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mojibake\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Makes you wonder how common this &#8216;mojibake literacy&#8217; is among postmen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian postmen fix an error caused by an ASCII-illiterate e-mail client in France. New aesthetic, anyone? This letter was sent to a Russian student by her French friend, who manually wrote the address that she received by e-mail. Her e-mail client, unfortunately, was not set up correctly to display Cyrillic characters, so they were substituted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[684],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6980"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6982,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6980\/revisions\/6982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}