According to those who have followed the attack at the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center, a cybersecurity crisis response organization, the infection tool is partially written in Chinese characters and compiled on a computer with Chinese language settings.

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For many Chinese the very basics of the English language, such as the characters we write with, are new.

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Hey, they use a different language with characters and it is tough going for Chinese to hit those keys like we do in the West.

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In the previous century, Jesuit missionaries had brought back the first substantial accounts of the Chinese language, and many philosophers were taken with the notion that its characters signified concepts rather than sounds, and that a single ideogram could have the same meaning to people all over East Asia, despite sounding completely different in each tongue.

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The addition of Japanese kana, the written language's two syllabic scripts, to kanji, or Chinese characters, adds another layer of complexity.

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