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. [1]

Dec 20, 2025 · Borrowed from Japanese 文字化け (mojibake), from 文字 (moji, “character”) + 化ける (bakeru, “to transform, take a different form”, generally in a negative way).

Mojibake (文字化け), literally "changed characters", is when the computer encodings of characters, particularly the encodings used for Japanese characters, get fouled up somewhere, such as in email …

"Mojibake (文字化け, "Garbled") is the garbled text that is the result of text being decoded using an unintended character encoding. The result is a systematic replacement of symbols with completely …

Mojibake is the garbled or gibberish text that results from a piece of text being decoded using an unintended character encoding, often producing sequences of replacement characters such as or ? …

Simulate or fix mojibake text with this encoding tool. Convert between readable and corrupted text caused by encoding mismatches like UTF-8 ↔ Latin1. Supports live preview, copy, export, and more.

When we see sequences that distinctly look like UTF-8 mojibake, but there’s no consistent way to reinterpret the string in a new encoding, replace the mojibake with the appropriate UTF-8 characters …

Sep 12, 2025 · Have you ever encountered seemingly random characters like ® ŸÖ ŸÖ staring back at you from your screen? This frustrating phenomenon, known as mojibake, often arises from character …

Aug 19, 2024 · Perhaps what you’re seeing is mojibake. For the uninitiated, mojibake is the garbled text you see as a result of decoding bytes that have been encoded with a different standard.

Mojibake often occurs when a character coding is incorrectly tagged in a document, or when a document is moved to a system with a different default coding than its preceding location.