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09-03-2009, 08:05 AM
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:
00101001
10110111
00001001
11010001
01001101
00100010
10011001
10101110
00011010
01001100
11010010
00100100
00111001
00100010
10010101
10000011
010?

Do y'all get it?
It's hard to, considering the number of bits there doesn't divide into a whole number of bytes. There are three bits left over. But giving it a stab...

The first byte encodes U+0029, which as BM points out is a right parenthesis ")". The second byte begins with "10", which is only possible for the second, third or fourth byte of two-, three- or four-byte characters, which begin with "110", "1110" and "11110" respectively. So this is a corrupt string. Unless you're using a very strange encoding.

EDIT: Wait, I get it now. The joke is that there are people who would try to decode it manually. What losers. Haha.
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