Props to the Japanese.

You know those strange characters that come up when a web site displays a language that you don't have installed on your computer? The Japanese have a word for that.

文字化け

That's "mojibake", or moh-jee-bah-kay. It means "ghost letters".

See, to me, that's just awesome. Ghost letters.

You may be seeing ghost letters in this very post right now, come to think of it.


("Mr. Sparkle says he will banish dirt to the land of wind and ghosts!")