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The nkf tool detects and converts between encodings of this language. The FONTX and FONTX2 drivers were created by lepton to support displaying this language on the DOS/V (“doss-V”) architecture. The infamously hard-to-parse file ken_all.csv (“ken underscore all dot c-s-v”), which Paul McCann calls “one of the most hated files on Earth”, is a list of postal data in this language. Corrupted or garbled text caused (15[1])by using the wrong character encoding is known by a term from this language. This is the [emphasize] second language in the three-letter acronym describing the (*) “Unified Ideographs” that make up the majority of all Unicode characters. Like ASCII art, text art using this language’s Shift JIS encoding is popular on the (10[1])2channel message board. For 10 points, (10[1])many encodings have trouble dealing with what language’s large number of kanji? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Japanese (The term for corrupted text is “mojibake”. The three-letter acronym is CJK, which stands for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.)
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= Average correct buzz position
Conv. %Power %Average Buzz
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