There's an inside joke among programmers in Mainland China where the GBK encoding is used. 锟斤拷 (which doesn't mean anything) is the result of interpreting UTF-

There's an inside joke among programmers in Mainland China where the GBK encoding is used. 锟斤拷 (which doesn't mean anything) is the result of interpreting UTF-8's replacement character [1] in GBK. 烫 (hot, scorching) is interpreting 0xcc in GBK. In debug mode, Visual Studio will initialize unused memory with 0xcc. The inside joke is: 手持两把锟斤拷，口中疾呼烫烫烫 Holding two 锟斤拷 in hands and screaming "hot hot hot" [1]: https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/fffd/index.htm https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/fffd/index.htm