Mojibake

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mojibake
/mo´jee·ba·ke/
Usage: n.


mojibake: /mo´jee·ba·ke/ n.

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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Source: mojibake, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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