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Japan's standard character set JIS X 0208 holds 6,355 kanji. A dozen — like '妛' and '彁' — have no traceable source and are considered mistakes. They display fine on most computers, yet these 'ghost characters' never really existed.
The Chinese character '羊,' read as 'yang' (meaning "sheep"), likely depicts a goat instead. When it was created, goats were far more common in East Asia. The "Year of the Sheep" in the Chinese zodiac was originally closer to the Year of the Goat.
The standard test image in computerimage processing comes from a 1972 Playboy magazine. A researcher cropped Lena Forsen's photo for a paper, and it became the field's benchmark, earning her the nickname "First lady of the internet."
Bill Burr, who wrote the 2003 NIST guidelines recommending passwords mix uppercase, numbers, and special characters, later said he regretted it — his reference material was from the 1980s. Experts now say long passphrases of multiple words are both safer and easier to remember.