I just explained, it's an encoding issue. Computers speak in binary, just zeroes and ones. Depending on the encoding, those zeroes and ones can be displayed entirely differently. There are character sets for most languages that use different characters. Arabic, Baltic, Celtic, Cyryllic, Chinese, Korean, etc.
The actual data sent could have been sent as "Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet" but displayed as "带悲伤的胡萝卜".
When was the last time you got an email from a friend that was accidentally printed in Chinese?
Never. But I've seen PLENTY of situations where encoding was the cause of major issues.
Fuck man, even the way new lines are created in a text file is dependent on encoding. On windows, you need a Carriage Return AND a Line Feed. In AIX, you need just the line feed. Pass a CRLF windows encoded file to linux expecting LF, and you get fail.
Buy many bridges?
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