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  2. Mojibake - Wikipedia

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    However, before Unicode became common in e-mail clients, e-mails containing Hungarian text often had the letters ő and ű corrupted, sometimes to the point of unrecognizability. It is common to respond to a corrupted e-mail with the nonsense phrase "Árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép" (literally "Flood-resistant mirror-drilling machine") which ...

  3. Data corruption - Wikipedia

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    In addition, if a corruption is detected and the file system uses integrated RAID mechanisms that provide data redundancy, such file systems can also reconstruct corrupted data in a transparent way. [18]

  4. Error detection and correction - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] Between the 7th and 10th centuries CE a group of Jewish scribes formalized and expanded this to create the Numerical Masorah to ensure accurate reproduction of the sacred text. It included counts of the number of words in a line, section, book and groups of books, noting the middle stich of a book, word use statistics, and commentary. [1]

  5. Zalgo text - Wikipedia

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    The sentence "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents", in Zalgo textZalgo text is generated by excessively adding various diacritical marks in the form of Unicode combining characters to the letters in a string of digital text. [4]

  6. Text box - Wikipedia

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    A text box also called an input box, text field or text entry box, is a control element of a graphical user interface, that should enable the user to input text information to be used by a program. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Human Interface Guidelines recommend a single-line text box when only one line of input is required, and a multi-line text box only if ...

  7. Wikipedia:VisualEditor/RFC - Wikipedia

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    As others have noted, most markup directives are not hard to learn, and for users who understand finding text on a page, then a typical Ctrl-F search for a word/number to change, using the wikitext editor, would be more likely to fix any text inside any template or table or image caption.

  8. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/September 2005 ...

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    Adobe sells a PDF plugin for Word - it's not bad. The problem is that it's expensive - PDF is a proprietary file format, unlike (say) HTML, so Adobe take what the market will bear. There are a variety of free converters out there, though - do a search on doc to pdf or word to pdf - but they'll take some fiddling to work.

  9. Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 124 - Wikipedia

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    If I compose some text in an external editor, paste that text into a talk page, then click on the icon to add a signature, it sometimes out the sig at the beginning rather than the end, even though the blinking cursor is at the end of the pasted text.