I assume that others are also seeing Chinese characters appearing in va-bird
online posts—or at least in the digests, which I receive. This has been going
on for some time, but today something I posted also has a couple of Chinese
characters replacing part of a word.
So, I sent a screen shot to my son, an Asian scholar living in Singapore, for
his opinion. I really wasn’t sure whether the characters were Chinese or
Japanese, but he can handle both. His reply follows:
"Lol. It's just garbage Chinese; some kind of unicode snafu. The first
character is apparently for the element "Holmium" (atomic number 67). The
second I couldn't find in the two dictionaries I checked but the tree (木)
radical on the left suggests it's probably an antiquated/obscure botanical
name.”
So the mystery remains. Frankly, I think it’s the Chinese Army Cybercommand
reviewing our posts before they appear on the list-serve. Or, maybe someone is
just messing with us. :-)
Best
Dave Davis
PS. My son doesn’t waste all of his time on Asian language and culture. He is
also a very serious birder and posts all of his sightings on eBird, as every
birder should.
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