Definitions
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- noun
corrupt characters orletters , especially from display or transfer through an inappropriatecharacter set orencoding , e.g., •¶Žš‰»‚¯, which is a corruption of文字化け .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Right now, its all good for us, no more mojibake which is the main thing.
TWiki.Codev 2008
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You should be able to read the mojibake in my comment above if your browser lets you force it to display as UTF-8 - I had to do it that way to include a schwa.
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Though the Japanese term 文字化け, mojibake, is probably more familiar to English speakers.
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Not far into the project we noticed a familiar foe - mojibake, the phenomenon when malformed characters appear when the computer or application fails to render the characters due to encoding issues.
Development Seed - Technological Solutions for Progressive Organizations 2009
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Chances are you'll end up with mojibake all over the place at some point.
Planet TW 2008
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Chances are you'll end up with mojibake all over the place at some point.
Planet TW 2008
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We use UTF-8 for all new apps we write, and we don't get any of the problems we used to get with mojibake (literally in Japanese, a string of unintelligible characters).
TWiki.Codev 2008
reesetee commented on the word mojibake
An incorrect, unreadable sequence of characters that appears when computer software fails to render text correctly according to its associated character encoding.
æ–‡å—化ã.
June 6, 2010
bilby commented on the word mojibake
What's the origin? Is it similar to cupertino?
January 1, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word mojibake
Cf. clbuttic mistake, and especially the examples given for clbuttic, which see, ruzuzu.
January 1, 2013