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Questions tagged [mojibake]

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.

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.

More info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake

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Running a BAT file and accidentally finding obscure Chinese poem

Accidentally found obscure Chinese poem (BAT file) Something really weird just happened. I ran this in a batch file: wmic timezone get caption>>tmp_ist.bak time/date>>tmp_ist.bak This was by accident, the time/date was a note to myself for…
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Unicode characters display improperly in KDE and on the console in Arch Linux

I recently switched from OpenSuSE to Arch Linux. Files with unicode characters in the name used to display fine, but after the switchover I just get mojibake. For example, in my music library Queensrÿche appears as Queensrÿche. This occurs on the…
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How to translate wacky metadata to readable format?

This is a song metadata i have (on Winamp): I'm trying to figure which artist it really is. Tried googling/google translate, but couldn't find the artist/title in english. Although, one page showed the name "Wagner" in there, but I listened many of…
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How to fix Hebrew Mojibake in old files

I have a set of plain text files with a mix of Hebrew and English. These files are from the late 90s to early 2000s and were apparently written in NisusWriter. When I open the text files the english lines render correctly but the Hebrew lines are…
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Unicode compatible devnagari font

The pages on the following URL used to render correctly last time I checked. http://www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in/marathi_Corpus/aesthetics/literatureBio_and_autobio/ahe_manohar_tari/BA00B005-1112_utf.txt Now it all shows junk like... ¤¾à¤¤à¤¾à¤–ाली…
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Mojibake in the linux console

There was no problem for five years. But when reinstalling Fedora from scratch, she reappeared again. So, in the console (not the terminal) (Ctrl-Alt-F3, for example), Linux was displayed small squares instead Cyrillic symbols. setfont in which way…
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¢tRÂà³Ab.Ÿân TXT files: how to switch from weird characters back to normal?

So, I have on a flash drive a txt file generated in Cyrillic (my own work, own pen drive), a few years old. Now I needed to open it, only to see this kind of mess: I wonder why is this happening and how can I restore it back to normal.. I tried…
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Text in Chrome showing up as garbled mojibake?

Today (May 25, 2023) in an existing Chrome session, all text on every site I checked started showing up as grabled mojibake. This persisted even after restarting Chrome and an update installing. For instance, here's a screenshot of how…
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Mac Excel - VBA written in Japanese gets corrupted

I have an excel file with a password-protected VBA macro written with Japanese characters that I'm having quite the trouble of working with. Whenever I tried opening it on Excel 2016 for Mac OS X, the file gives me several error pop ups and when I…
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Wrong characters when installing 海通大智慧

I installed 海通大智慧 on Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate (English version). However, the characters are clearly wrong (it is supposed to be in Chinese, but the characters mix up Chinese and Korean characters. Everywhere. And their concatenation makes no…
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