Because I thought it would be fun to share: things my heartmarks turn into

[soc_puppet]

...Okay, not just heartmarks. Also symbols like ¦ or foreign letters like ç. But mostly heartmarks, 'cuz that's what I use most often. Anyway, Yahoo!Mail reads 'em weird, and presents 'em as kanji. Here's some of what I've gotten:

ç:
鏰 and 莽

¦:
娄

Heartmarks:
鈾モ櫏鈾 (three hearts)
鈾モ櫏鈾モ櫏鈾 (five hearts)

鏰:
閺

In conclusion: Yahoo!Mail is weird. But also possibly an interesting reason to look up kanji meanings. Unless they're actually Chinese, in which case I'll have to find a different dictionary.

Edit: Bonus: What other people's heartmarks have turned into:
鈾モ櫏鈾
...Which is really more of the same, but I wanted to include it anyway.

Edit 2: Okay, it's sort-of back to normal now. Kanji (and kana, thank you Pat) are now appearing as follows:
モ
鏰
莽
娄
鈾
櫏
é–º

And heartmarks are now (back to):
♥
Which I'm pretty sure is what they used to be. It was interesting while it lasted...

Comments

[lyzzle.livejournal.com]

The majority of those are question marks for me. D: How do I fix it?

[soc_puppet]

Maybe there's a language pack you can download and install? Other than that, I've got no ideas :(

[lyzzle.livejournal.com]

Hmm. *pokes her computer* I dunno. :/ I think my computer's just illiterate.

[soc_puppet]

We must work to overcome illiteracy in laptops! And desktops! And--okay, I'll stop now.

[lyzzle.livejournal.com]

Haha. We need teachers to teach computers. XD

[sleepfighter.livejournal.com]

If you have windows, do you have East Asian Languages checked in your Regional settings, in the control panel? (It should be an option on the first page of the menus.)

[lyzzle.livejournal.com]

....No I do not! :D *does so* ...Hmm, I don't know where the XP CD is. :(

[sleepfighter.livejournal.com]

...hm. There should be a non-CD option...did you try to install any langauge packs, or just enable suport?

[lyzzle.livejournal.com]

It said I had to install language packs. *shrugs* I've just found the CD, so I'm gonna try it again.

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

That used to happen to me too. I ended up turning off the language option on firefox for a while. XD

[soc_puppet]

Did it work? (Not that I use Firefox, but...)

[bard-linn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, though of course when I wanted to look at something with the kangi/what have you I had to turn it back on.

[nekokenchan.livejournal.com]

モ is the katakana 'mo'. Don't try to look for that in a kanji dictionary. You won't find it. I guarantee it. As for the rest of it... These are courtesy of http://www.rikai.com

鏰 isn't wanting to be translated, but has components of gols/money, mountain, and moon/month

莽 is grass or grassy field

娄 also isn't wanting to be translated but has woman/female in it (can't recognize the top half)

鈾 not wanting to be translated but also has gold/money

櫏 not wanting to be translated but has tree and a bunch of stuff I can't recognize...

閺 not wanting to be translated but has gate and something

Sorry I can't help any more

[mistressoffoxes.livejournal.com]

From what I can see from here (but correct me if I'm wrong):

娄 is "ai"....Or looks like it, in any case ^__^;;;;

[nekokenchan.livejournal.com]

Trust me, It's not. 'Ai' has heart in it. That one doesn't

[mistressoffoxes.livejournal.com]

Ah, right. Sorry for the mistake ^^;

[soc_puppet]

Helpful.

Extra bonus: what the kanji (and lone katakana) turn into now:
In order of appearance:

モ
鏰
莽
娄
鈾
櫏
é–º

I suppose I could always check wwwjdic for the rest.