So Miku's speech bubble in the upper left has the same pattern of text that I assumed was mojibake in the commentary of post #7739202, with odd kanji like 縺 蜉 繧 interspersed with half-width kana and other symbols. Following the reply to my comment there, I tried a mojibake decoder to no avail, and looking for similar text, I see it in a bunch of Vocaloid song titles, wiki-pages, etc, but no clear explanation for how they work.
Does anyone who's used Vocaloid and knows what this is have any pointers to decoding this sort of thing?
Note that some of the mojibake kana are not only half-width but the small form as well. It's harder to see in the image so you have to play around a bit with things like that.
Note that some of the mojibake kana are not only half-width but the small form as well. It's harder to see in the image so you have to play around a bit with things like that.
Ah, I see. I tried it again and noted that I needed to put in the encodings manually (Shift-JIS to UTF-8). I was previously using the "guess encodings" feature and getting garbled output which lead me to believe that it wasn't normal mojibake. Thanks for the help!
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