by Quasimondo aka Mario Klingemann: “[..] wirh the goal to write an image encoder/decoder that allows to send an image in a tweet. The image on the left is what I currently manage to send in 140 characters via twitter. [..] The chinese in this case is just a host for my parasitic image bytes - it does not really make sense (although, sending it through the translator gives me ideas for some other experiments). I could have used other parts of unicode ( unicode.org/charts/ ), but then there might be a lot of non-defined font symbols among them which would not look so nice.”