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I've just spotted that right after update spotify starts itself up with a command line that looks like
Spotify.exe /UPDATECOMPLETE "䣈!"
I can understand the purpose of the /UPDATECOMPLETE key there, but what could the mysterious "䣈!" mean?
zerkms
Posted 2016-05-27T08:41:10.373
Reputation: 946
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Windows command line officially uses UTF-16, but sometimes programs mistakenly put other kinds of data there – e.g. UTF-8, ASCII, or just raw binary garbage. Since 䣈! is U+48C8 U+0021, it might have been just the number 0xC8482100. (If it's a 32-bit system, it could have been a mixup of pointer-to-text vs pointer-to-pointer-to-text.)
user1686
Posted 2016-05-27T08:41:10.373
Reputation: 283 655
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It means a lane or an alley.
䣈
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(ancient form of 巷) (interchangeable 衖) a lane, an alley
Source Unihan data for U+48C8
DavidPostill
Posted 2016-05-27T08:41:10.373
Reputation: 118 938
3While you have identified the character, that doesn't really explain what it means in this context... – Bob – 2016-05-27T12:23:10.173
1But as sarcastic answers go it was a good one :-) – Joe Taylor – 2016-05-27T12:28:49.327
Yep, I think this would be the best assumption unless there is a spotify employee around that can tell for sure. – zerkms – 2016-05-27T22:10:00.047