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Did they mess up character encoding, or are there really a bunch of question marks in the registry.

I didn't realize the article is old and the changes are already available in an updated Win10 installation.

It is indeed as it shows in the article. For reference: https://imgur.com/a/2tiYJ1w

From the article:

> The last value "2019 05 01" contains the temporary information "？？_？_??????_?"

Now I'm not sure if the thing contains a bunch of question marks (in two different fonts, no less) or if somewhere (the original poster, the blog, your OS, hacker news, my browser, my OS) the character encoding got dorked up.

For reference, here's what I see: https://imgur.com/a/VdcaQ0r

The fact that there are unicode "Fullwidth Question Mark"s as well as what appear to be normal question marks make me thing there still is an encoding issue.

As possibly should the fact that the Klingon in the title is greeked in the header. (-:

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