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Mojibake (literally "character transformation") is a term for the garbled or gibberish text that results from text being displayed in the wrong encoding. This is a common problem in Japanese, where text may be written in one format, for example Shift-JIS, but displayed in another format, such as Unicode.

Sometimes, if the font is lacking appropriate glyphs, a substitute character might be shown (such as blank box, or particularly egregious, a ? in Microsoft products, making it extra-hard to notice that something is missing in small snippets).

See also

  • mojibake commentary
  • gibberish text

External links

  • Wikipedia: Mojibake

The following tags are aliased to this tag: mojibake (learn more).

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