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"Wikipedia has a photo of a parcel where a Russian/Cyrillic address was displayed on a computer with the wrong character encoding, and transcribed from that. Re
by jakub_g 12y ago
"Wikipedia has a photo of a parcel where a Russian/Cyrillic address was displayed on a computer with the wrong character encoding, and transcribed from that. Reportedly a russian postal worker was able to reverse the mapping and deliver the parcel."
The linked URL doesn't work anymore but thanks to Archive.org and reverse image search in Google I managed to find it:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130909052627/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Letter_to_Russia_with_krokozyabry.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20130909052627/http://en.wikiped...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/thumb/f/fa/Letter_to_Russia_with_krokozyabry.jpg/755px-Letter_to_Russia_with_krokozyabry.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/thumb/f/fa/Letter_t...
- breakingcups 12y agoThat is one dedicated postal worker.