a machine that cut up secret documents into smallunreadable fragments
2020, Stewart Arneil, “Encoding Disappearing Characters: The Case of Twentieth-Century Japanese-Canadian Names”, inJournal of the Text Encoding Initiative[1], number12, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium,→DOI,→ISSN:
Although the kyūjitai kanji were not banned, the obsolete kyūjitai kanji have becomeunreadable to more and more readers over time, thus making texts including them difficult for modern readers, but at least there is a recognized mapping from new form to old form.
Making an unpleasant reading experience, e.g. because it isdull orupsetting.
anunreadable book
unreadable rants
Not able to beaccessed or played by some technical device.
