mojibake

English

Mojibake in the text of Japanese Wikipedia, displayed with the wrong encoding.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˌmoʊ.d͡ʒiˈbɑ.ki/, /ˌmoʊ.d͡ʒiˈbɑ.keɪ/
(UK) IPA^(key): /ˌməʊ.d͡ʒiˈbɑː.ki/, /ˌməʊ.d͡ʒiˈbɑː.keɪ/
Audio (UK) (file)

Examples
`•¶Žš‰»‚¯` – a corruption of 文字化け

Noun

mojibake (uncountable)

(computing) Corrupt characters or letters, especially from display or transfer through an inappropriate character set or encoding.

Synonyms

krakozyabry

Translations

corrupt characters or letters

Ancient Greek: παράγραμμα n (parágramma)
Arabic: مُوجِيبَاكِي‎ m (mujibākī)
Belarusian: краказя́бра f (krakazjábra)
Bulgarian: маймуница f (majmunica)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 亂碼, 乱码 (lyun⁶ maa⁵)
Mandarin: 亂碼／乱码 (zh) (luànmǎ)
Min Nan: 亂碼 (zh-min-nan), 乱码 (loān-bé)
Esperanto: moĝibako
Finnish: mojibake
French: mojibake (fr)
Galician: mojibake
German: Mojibake f, Zeichensalat m, Krähenfüße (de) m pl
Hebrew: סינית‎ f (sinít)
Hungarian: modzsibake, krikszkraksz (hu), betűszemét
Italian: mojibake pl
Japanese: 文字化け (もじばけ, mojibake)
Korean: 깨진 (kkaejin) 글자 (ko) (geulja), 글자 깨짐 (geulja kkaejim), 외계어 (oegyeeo)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tegnsalat
Persian: موجیباکه‎ (mojibâke)
Polish: krzaki m pl
Portuguese: mojibake
Romanian: maimuțica
Russian: кракозя́бра f (krakozjábra), крокозя́бра (ru) f (krokozjábra), крякозя́бра f (krjakozjábra), бнопня́ f (bnopnjá), бНОПНЯ́ f (bNOPNJá), модзиба́ке n (modzibáke), зю́ква f (zjúkva), закаля́ка f (zakaljáka), бу́ква «зю» f (búkva “zju”)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ђубре
Roman: đubre (sh)
Spanish: mojibake
Swedish: mojibake
Thai: ภาษาต่างดาว (th) (paa-sǎa-dtàang-daao)
Ukrainian: крокозя́бра f (krokozjábra)
Vietnamese: loạn mã (亂碼)

Japanese

Romanization

mojibake

Rōmaji transcription of もじばけ