# We're seeing random Japanese characters
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-seeing-random-japanese-characters/67563
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [August 6, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-seeing-random-japanese-characters/67563 "2017-08-06T19:52:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Seth\_Godin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Seth_Godin)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-seeing-random-japanese-characters/67563/1 "2017-08-06T19:52:49Z")
Using a hosted solution. It’s intermittent, and all our users can see them.
Here, for example (top right)
[ ](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/6zqg1b7t79yckye/Screenshot%202017-08-06%2015.48.53.jpg?dl=0)
We can fix this by logging out and restarting, but it seems like a pretty odd bug.
We’ve seen it in our private Discourse at:
[https://summersession.themarketingseminar.com/t/asian-characters-on-discourse/12310](https://summersession.themarketingseminar.com/t/asian-characters-on-discourse/12310)
Thanks all.
Seth
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-seeing-random-japanese-characters/67563/2 "2017-08-06T19:55:52Z")
See this related topic:
> [@Language Changed to Japanese for multiple users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/language-changed-to-japanese-for-multiple-users/67467):
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> This morning I noticed that the interface had changed to Japanese and I had no idea how to change it back. I assumed I must have somehow pocket switched it on my phone, but then others told me the same thing happened to them. It self corrected within a few minutes, but we are still a little concerned. Is there a way to find out how this happened?
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### Author:  [@tempogain](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tempogain)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2017, 7:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-seeing-random-japanese-characters/67563/3 "2017-08-06T19:56:31Z")
It’s Chinese (though could be Japanese as well, as it sometimes uses Chinese characters.) As could be surmised it’s the character for “minutes”
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### Author:  [@Seth\_Godin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Seth_Godin)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-seeing-random-japanese-characters/67563/4 "2017-08-06T19:59:32Z")
Thank you both. And I see from @cpradio that this is already reported and being worked on. Sorry my search for “Japanese” didn’t find it.
Happy to have this topic closed.
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2017, 8:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-seeing-random-japanese-characters/67563/5 "2017-08-06T20:00:15Z")