Can Aany techheads explain why random Chinese characters appear on TV YouTube app?

Sorry for the extra 'A' in the title.

Mandarin or Cantonese, OP? It matters.

I read Chinese so if you post a screenshot I'll tell you what the Chinese are saying to you through your tv.

It's gone now R3, so can't do that. I assumed it was just the characters used for "home" "settings" etc.

R2, no distinction there when it comes to the writing.

Don't do drug!

Because they want stardom in United States.

Your television has been hacked by the Chinese. They're watching your every move and using your TV to post on propaganda DL. You need to cover your television in grease and set it on fire. It's your only hope.

^^ propaganda on DL, not on propaganda DL

I'm not in the US.

Very helpful, R7, hehe.

I'm not being paranoid about this, I just thought it was weird, and wondered if there was an explanation. If it was just there, I would imagine it was a setting that had been switched on somehow, but it was there one minute, then disappeared, and I don't understand why the icons would change, but not the wording.

[quote] no distinction there when it comes to the writing.

Not true. Cantonese uses traditional Chinese characters, Mandarin uses more simplified.

No, I think simplified is used for mainland Chinese all over. Traditional is used outside of mainland Chinese in communities that escaped, for example in Taiwan.

[quote]I'm not in the US.

Well, we are. So go complain to your country's Chinese Embassy.

I just did a search on this and it looks like it's an ongoing problem but so far it looks like it's limited to Samsung TVs.

Here's another.

What kind of TV do you have, OP?

R13 - thank you! That's exactly what it looked like for me!

I read Japanese fluently and can figure out Chinese. The characters are like this:

Japanese: uses traditional characters only.

Cantonese: uses traditional characters but it is very hard for me to read.

Mandarin: uses simplified but I can figure out what it says.

Taiwan uses traditional characters because it was colonized by the Japanese in 1895 and remained a colony until 1945.

It's fairly easy to read complex words across the languages because many modern concepts (political science and science, for instance) were initially created in Japan in the mid to late 19th century, and then the Chinese adopted those character compounds, as did the Koreans. Look up the words for "police" and "nationalism," for example.

Where the hell do you think it was made?

Ours is a Samsung, R14, just like these. The only difference is that the characters weren't shown all at once like in that picture, but only appeared when highlighted.

Those characters don't mean those words. I think it's just a glitch. Those are very weird, not at all common characters.

So, it kinda makes sense now. If the TV was made in China, I guess it has settings for Chinese characters too, and maybe a glitch caused it to show them briefly.

Are you using a VPN? Because that can do it.

I just found this solution on Reddit:

[quote]Resetting the Smart Hub worked. It's annoying because you nuke all associated login / account stuff, but it fixed it.

[quote]My TV : UN60KS8000

[quote]Menu Steps that fixed it for me:

[quote]Navigate to Home > Settings > Support > Self Diagnosis > Smart Hub reset. The default pin is 0000.

[quote]After this, you will probably need to re agree to all the TOS and setup accounts, but when I got through that and went back to YouTube it was all good again. Hope that helps someone.

Good Luck, OP.

The characters are gibberish. Those are not the Chinese words for those things.

Those characters in r13 are what’s called ‘亂碼‘/luan ma, random characters that don’t mean anything.

[quote] nonsense characters displayed when software fails to render text according to its intended character encoding

Thanks to those helpful posters above! It all makes a lot more sense now.

Meaningless Chinese words...hmmm...

The 'Code Page' that is referenced for the bullet list is being overwritten/corrupted. It's called 'crappy programming'. If the display is rendered using HTML, it's, I believe called the 'CodeSet'.

I don't know if it is allowed to inject HTML into datalounge comments (I've only been a member a few days), but a person could theoretically do it to a comment as an example.

Thats some scary shit right there. Be sure to check the foot of your bed tonight in case there's a pod about to "blossom."

It was probably saying “ Buy Chinese Coca-Cola”. They pee in it before they ship it. It’s a long-running joke. Go figure.

[quote]Those characters in [R13] are what’s called ‘亂碼‘/luan ma, random characters that don’t mean anything.

Thank you! I thought I was going crazy because it looked like gibberish or what Cantonese looks like to me.

R13 Usually, it just means the program misinterpreted some bytes of data as intended for display as characters on screen. Assuming it's using Unicode character set, those 16-bit word just happen to decode as Chinese characters.

they "just happen" to be chinese?

no one thought that out?

It says, “Fuck white people”

See it through the Jonas eyes.