Matlab code contains comments with strange/unrecognisable characters. Can these be "translated" in English?

Dear all,

I am currently evaluating this code, available from https://it.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/116570-pre-processing-of-tasi-data . When opened, the actual script is fine, but the comments are a mix of english and unclear characters. Can you suggest a way, if any, to decode these characters and "translate" them in English?

I guess they were written in a different language (i.e., Chinese?)

You can see an example below:

function [ytr,ylp,yld]=gaiAAC(data,a,b)
% y:¾­Ñ鹫ʽTrºÍPd
% yy:¸Ä½øÐ͵Ä͸¹ýÂÊ
% yyy:¸Ä½øÐ͵ÄÉÏÐзøÉä
% data:ʵÑéÇø
% a:ISAC·ÖÇøµÄÊýÁ¿
% b:ISACÖеÄNESR
load ma;
load mb;
tr=[ma1tr;ma2tr;ma3tr;mb1tr;mb2tr;mb3tr];
lp=[ma1lp;ma2lp;ma3lp;mb1lp;mb2lp;mb3lp];
ld=[ma1lsky;ma2lsky;ma3lsky;mb1lsky;mb2lsky;mb3lsky];
TR=tr(:,28)./tr(:,29);
Pd=lp(:,28)-TR.*lp(:,29);
%´óÆø͸¹ýÂÊ
coeftr100=zeros(32,9);    %»ñµÃÄâºÏϵÊý
rz100=zeros(110,32);      %»ñµÃ²Ð²î
statsz100=zeros(32,4);    %»ñµÃÄâºÏÓŶȣ¬µÚÒ»¸ö

Answer 1

[the cyclist]

Given that there have been relatively recent updates to that FEX submission, I would ask the author (by posting in the Discussion tab).

[Simone A.]

Thanks for the suggestion!

Answer 2

[John D'Errico]

If you get no response, you could try Google Translate, though it does not seem to be terribly helpful today. It thinks the comments are Guarani, when I posed this text to translate:

% y:¾­Ñ鹫ʽTrºÍPd

% yy:¸Ä½øÐ͵Ä͸¹ýÂÊ

% yyy:¸Ä½øÐ͵ÄÉÏÐзøÉä

% data:ʵÑéÇø

% a:ISAC·ÖÇøµÄÊýÁ¿

% b:ISACÖеÄNESR

But it tells me nothing more than:

% y:3⁄4Word1«Ê1⁄2TroÍPd

% yy: ̧Ä1⁄2øÐÍμÄÍ ̧1ýÂÊ

% yyy: ̧Ä1⁄2øÐÍμÄÉÏÐзøÉä

% data:ÊμÑéÇø

% a:ISAC·ÖÇøμÄÊýÁ¿

% b:ISACÖÐμÄNESR

So just contact the author.

[the cyclist]

I tried Google Translate, too, and got a different guess at the language detection. I suspect it is garbage characters that ended up in the file somehow. But it's difficult to know for sure, of course.

[Simone A.]

Yeah, I tried a similar approach by opening it in Word. It detects Vietnamese, but still I wasn't able to decode it. It seems like it was written with a different keyboard (i.e., Chinese, Vietnamese, etc.), and then when uploaded these characters were impropriatelly converted (just a guess).