May 15, 2003

mojibake

n. /mo´jee·ba·ke/

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/.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:38 AM

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