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While I was writing on a file on my Linux portable computer, the thing I was writing suddenly started to change!

Take a look at the file:

¶€µ€µ”€¶ ŧø ðø ænøŧħ€¶ @€n¢øð→nŋ €»ŧ¶€µ€@ đø¶ ŧøðæ←|

What happened to my computer or what did I do to “encode” the text?

And, what’s written on the file?

(I didn’t found any help on Google.)

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You were holding one of the “alternate graphics” keys on your Canadian Multilingual Standard keyboard:

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Note how the dark green glyph on the ‘R’ key is ¶, etc.

Only ‘E’ is different; I guess that one is vendor-specific or something.

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