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Odd characters in memory

While I was running my debugger I decided to examine a specific spot in memory and noticed that there are some odd characters ¾㵎䐑톢హ��洓. Does anyone know what this is?

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It's random bytes in memory being (mis-)interpreted as Unicode characters.

Ned Batchelder  2009-11-14 19:34:00

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