What does "挨⎒" have to do with "

Terence Eden — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:37:14 +0000

I received this weird bit of mojibake in an email. Here's the raw text view:

------=_NextPart_001_009E_01D4D8BF.D0737E10
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=&quot;UTF-8&quot;
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

=E6=8C=A8=E2=8E=92tml xmlns:v=3D&quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml&quot; xmlns:o=3D&quot;=
urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office&quot; xmlns:w=3D&quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-c=
om:office:word&quot; xmlns:m=3D&quot;http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml=
&quot; xmlns=3D&quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40&quot;&gt;

What's going on?

挨 is a Chinese, Japanese, Korean (cjk) unified ideograph (U+6328)
⎒ is the passive-pull-up-output symbol (U+2392)

That's somehow replaced:

< - less-than sign (U+003C)
h - Latin small letter h (U+0068)

<h in binary is 00111100 01101000

挨⎒ in binary is 11100110 10001100 10101000 11100010 10001110 10010010

It was sent from Outlook 2010 to Gmail. But I receive lots of those emails.

Try as I might, I just can't work out where this error has crept in. A glitch in the Matrix? Electronic interference? Any clues, gang?

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