I was just trying to reset my pc and this weird app wasn’t letting me. Someone know what is it? It is any malware or windows app? This is the first that I have seen this, and it happened after I was trying to play overwatch and it started lagging. I have been trying to search up the same program in google without any success. I just found out another subreddit where someone has the same issue as me. But there wasn’t any really helpful answer. Just in case this info is needed: My OS build number is 26100.7462
Windows Unicode encoding bug, messing up the text/symbols. This is the process ‘SpotifyWidgetProviderWindow’.
ASCII characters do not turn into mojibake due to encoding. Only non-ASCII characters do.
Depends on the encoding(s). If you interpret UTF-8 as UTF-16 then they absolutely will, for example,
UTF-8 won’t fail since it share the same encoding with ASCII in the first 127 characters.
UTF-16 could fail as it uses 2 bytes for English. “SpotifyWidgetProviderWindow” has 27 characters (27 bytes), and the giberrish has 13 characters + 1 'w' (27 bytes). Since the last single byte 'w' matches, if we assume there is some sort of magical fallback from UTF-16 to UTF-8 for single byte data (UTF-16 does not have single byte character), this could happen.
They are right, just take the code points for:
'S' = 0x53
'p' = 0x70
Combined using little endian is 0x7053, this 16 bit code point is 灓, the exact character we see in OP's picture. So windows took two 8 bit characters 'Sp' and interpreted them as a single 16 bit code point. Maybe that magical fallback does exist
I think all of yall should kiss
Why not us paulie👉👈
I enjoy the cuck chair in this situation
Oh mb
Don’t worry I’ll give everyone a kiss after.
I never knew the specifics of it, thanks for the correction!
It's cute that you think winblows play well with regular ASCII :)
how the hell did you decode that from the screenshot? (actually curious)
I just happened to remember a similar question from a few months ago and what the solution was. I didn’t come up with the answer or solution myself :) If you google “SpotifyWidgetProviderWindow” you’ll see lots of identical questions from around the web.
Edit: If I remember, there was a guy on Reddit who just took the name of the process and converted it from UTF-8 to UTF-16 or vice versa, and it gave you the correct name, which points to a UTF format bug as the cause.
Thanks!
Easiest to explain would be, save a file in utf8, reopen in utf16-le
The random w at the end hints at it
Thank you so much for your help
sounds like something a chinese spy would say
Did it happen again? Any new programs ?Did you do malware scans?
I haven’t download anything in these days. I haven’t try a malware scans tho
Try Malwarebytes too
Its just Spotify i asked chatgpt about it back then
https://preview.redd.it/6xkgdthvim8g1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=337b4c7613a97464e68b9b9b1d9d14a1e8432a80
stealing this as this is a recurring feeling that i get now
okay but it’s right it is spotify
Name checks out
third party thinker
I would verify that
Spotify is at a very chinese time in its life
Every time this comes up it's always Spotify
Thank you I had this exact problem and have been worried about having malware 😭
It's just Spotify and widows encoded the text wrong
do a malware scan bro it will surely help & check the processes running in the task manager to identify what is running
https://preview.redd.it/ee6f2lbwpl8g1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=77daa6f59da5fdc6f7e6fbc440be441038f102ba
Not sure what the app is supposed to be
It's just Spotify and widows encoded the text wrong
damn xi jinping is on bros pc
he's boutta do some hard gaming
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Install a y 3D printing software lately?
Nope
Spotify.
for anyone that look for relaxing answer :
windows FAIL to close many apps that are open since ... w11.
Having open 10 file explorers will fail and be stuck.
if something happened to you like this -> OCR from ai and find source. my way is app "everything".
The chineese thing might be bluestacks or gameloop
Don't worry. It's not a virus. Just Spotify.
Búscala en todos los programas jaja
Kim Jong Un Type Spyware
That's not even Korean
My bad bro, Xi Jinping Type Spyware
if u downloaded anything lately (anything sus) put it through triage because ur in quite a shit situation
99% sure that it's a virus
It’s not, it’s Spotify
This is what the virus would say
My God... they're on reddit now!
You men restart and not reset ? 😅
If i found anything chinese on my pc like that id nuke it !