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Russians have us beat -- they decoded an address with the wrong character encoding hand written on this package. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Koverto
by fsckin 13y ago
Russians have us beat -- they decoded an address with the wrong character encoding hand written on this package.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Koverto-kun-krakozjabroj.png http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Koverto-kun-krakozjab...
- ivan78 13y agoI immediately remembered about this story too. This is pretty hilarious: "Containing a Harry Potter book, the letter was sent to a Russian student by her French friend, who manually transcribed the address that he had received by e-mail. The Frenchman's e-mail program was not set up correctly, so the Cyrillic characters encoded as KOI8-R were instead displayed as diacritic symbols from the Western character set (ISO-8859-1). Russian postal employees deciphered the address and delivered the package successfully."
- jjs 13y agoEither that, or they've spent so much time on the pre-Unicode Internet that they can sight-read Cyrillic characters encoded as Latin-1...
- forinti 13y agoMaybe the Russian postal service has a good crypto team as a remnant of the soviet era.