I have a piece of work from a student in which many of the letters have
been swapped from the normal version of the letter to one from a
different character set, which looks similar.
You can see the effect easily if you compare the result of typing an e
and doing alt-1077 (using your numeric keypad) - they look identical but
are different characters, which means that a word spelt th[alt-1077]
doesn't match "the" in sources Turnitin checks against.
In the example I've got, it's not every instance of these characters
which has been changed, on some occasions the word "there" has both
variants of the letter e. This makes me think it's not a simple find
and replace, but software which is only changing some of the characters
so it's a bit more subtle.
An example line from the work concerned (converted to HTML):
Thеre are large differenceѕ in both ѕpeed and
coѕtѕ between thе traffic modeѕ road and air.
Has anybody come across this? Or can anybody suggest a legitimate
reason why this might have happenned that isn't an attempt to circumvent
plagiarism detection?
Thanks
Steve
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