Why are there Chinese characters in these logs?

Hello again, so recently I was digging in the Microsoft Defender/Antimalware logs, and when going to the Quick logs, they had chinese characters in them, is this normal?

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So I was really bored and decided to show one of the log files on my Windows 11 installation.

Here's the log as rendered by notepad.exe

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Yep, it looks Chinese.

Here's the same log as rendered by a hex editor

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It looks nothing like Chinese and typical of an encrypted document.

Please concentrate on the logical conclusion, and ignore illogical conclusions created by people who make it up as they go along.

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Last updated February 11, 2025 Views 2,806 Applies to: