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Learned a fantastic new word from this article, thanks! Mojibake (文字化け?) (IPA: [modʑibake]; lit. "unintelligible sequence of characters"), from the Japanese 文字
by fsckin 15y ago
Learned a fantastic new word from this article, thanks!
Mojibake (文字化け?) (IPA: [modʑibake]; lit. "unintelligible sequence of characters"), from the Japanese 文字 (moji) "character" + 化け (bake) "change", is the occurrence of incorrect, unreadable characters shown when software fails to render text correctly according to its associated character encoding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake
- sp332 15y agoThe best part of that article: handwritten mojibake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Letter_to_Russia_with_krokozyabry.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Letter_to_Russia_with_kro...
- robin_reala 15y agoI’m amazed that the postal services decoded that!
- guard-of-terra 15y agoAlso крякозябры.