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Mojibake

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Mojibake (Japanese: 文字化け; IPA: [mod͡ʑibake], 'character transformation') is the garbled or gibberish text that is the result of text being decoded using an unintended character encoding. The result is a systematic replacement of symbols with completely unrelated ones, often from a different writing system.

The UTF-8-encoded Japanese Wikipedia article for Mojibake displayed as if interpreted as Windows-1252 The UTF-8-encoded Russian Wikipedia article on Church Slavonic displayed as if interpreted as KOI8-R Mojibake (Japanese: 文字化け; IPA: [mo.(d)ʑi.ba.ke], 'character transformation') is the garbled or gibberish text that is the result of text being decoded using an unintended character encoding.[1] The result is a systematic replacement of symbols with completely unrelated ones, often from a different writing system. This display may include the generic replacement character ⟨�⟩ in places…

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