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Wiktionary

  1. mojibakenoun

    corrupt characters or letters, especially from display or transfer through an inappropriate character set, e.g., u00Bu00BB¯, which is a corruption of u5B.

  2. Etymology: 文字化け (もじばけ, mojibake), from 文字 (もじ, moji) "character" + 化ける (ばける, bakeru) "transform", thus "character transformation".

Wikipedia

  1. Mojibake

    Mojibake (Japanese: 文字化け; IPA: [mod͡ʑibake], "character transformation") 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 unrelated ones, often from a different writing system. This display may include the generic replacement character ("�") in places where the binary representation is considered invalid. A replacement can also involve multiple consecutive symbols, as viewed in one encoding, when the same binary code constitutes one symbol in the other encoding. This is either because of differing constant length encoding (as in Asian 16-bit encodings vs European 8-bit encodings), or the use of variable length encodings (notably UTF-8 and UTF-16). Failed rendering of glyphs due to either missing fonts or missing glyphs in a font is a different issue that is not to be confused with mojibake. Symptoms of this failed rendering include blocks with the code point displayed in hexadecimal or using the generic replacement character. Importantly, these replacements are valid and are the result of correct error handling by the software.

Wikidata

  1. Mojibake

    Mojibake, from the Japanese 文字 "character" + 化け "transform", is the presentation of incorrect, unreadable characters when software fails to render text correctly according to its associated character encoding.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. mojibake

    Japanese for “ghost characters”, the garbage that comes out when one tries to display international character sets through software not configured for them. There is a page on the topic at http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/mojibake/.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mojibake in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mojibake in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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