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Mojibake ( 文字化け ; IPA: [mod͡ʑibake]) is the garbled text that is the result of text beingness decoded using an unintended character encoding.^[i] The issue is a systematic replacement of symbols with completely unrelated ones, ofttimes from a different writing arrangement.

This display may include the generic replacement character ("�") in places where the binary representation is considered invalid. A replacement can also involve multiple sequent symbols, every bit viewed in one encoding, when the same binary code constitutes one symbol in the other encoding. This is either because of differing constant length encoding (as in Asian 16-chip encodings vs European eight-bit encodings), or the use of variable length encodings (notably UTF-eight and UTF-xvi).

Failed rendering of glyphs due to either missing fonts or missing glyphs in a font is a different issue that is not to exist confused with mojibake. Symptoms of this failed rendering include blocks with the code point displayed in hexadecimal or using the generic replacement character. Importantly, these replacements are valid and are the result of correct error treatment by the software.

Etymology [edit]

Mojibake ways "character transformation" in Japanese. The word is composed of 文字 (moji, IPA: [mod͡ʑi]), "character" and 化け (bake, IPA: [bäke̞], pronounced "bah-keh"), "transform".

Causes [edit]

To correctly reproduce the original text that was encoded, the correspondence between the encoded information and the notion of its encoding must exist preserved. As mojibake is the instance of not-compliance between these, information technology can be achieved by manipulating the data itself, or just relabeling it.

Mojibake is frequently seen with text data that have been tagged with a wrong encoding; it may not even be tagged at all, merely moved between computers with different default encodings. A major source of problem are communication protocols that rely on settings on each computer rather than sending or storing metadata together with the data.

The differing default settings between computers are in part due to differing deployments of Unicode among operating system families, and partly the legacy encodings' specializations for different writing systems of homo languages. Whereas Linux distributions more often than not switched to UTF-8 in 2004,^[2] Microsoft Windows mostly uses UTF-16, and sometimes uses 8-flake code pages for text files in dissimilar languages.^{[ dubious – discuss ]}

For some writing systems, an example beingness Japanese, several encodings have historically been employed, causing users to come across mojibake relatively ofttimes. As a Japanese case, the word mojibake "文字化け" stored as EUC-JP might be incorrectly displayed as "ﾊｸｻ�ｽ､ｱ", "ﾊｸｻ嵂ｽ､ｱ" (MS-932), or "ﾊｸｻ郾ｽ､ｱ" (Shift JIS-2004). The aforementioned text stored as UTF-8 is displayed every bit "譁�蟄怜喧縺�" if interpreted as Shift JIS. This is further exacerbated if other locales are involved: the same UTF-8 text appears every bit "文字化ã'" in software that assumes text to be in the Windows-1252 or ISO-8859-i encodings, unremarkably labelled Western, or (for example) every bit "鏂囧瓧鍖栥亼" if interpreted as being in a GBK (Mainland People's republic of china) locale.

Mojibake case

Original text	文		字		化		け
Raw bytes of EUC-JP encoding	CA	B8	BB	FA	B2	BD	A4	B1
Bytes interpreted as Shift-JIS encoding	ﾊ	ｸ	ｻ	郾		ｽ	､	ｱ
Bytes interpreted as ISO-8859-1 encoding	Ê	¸	»	ú	²	½	¤	±
Bytes interpreted equally GBK encoding	矢		机		步		け

Underspecification [edit]

If the encoding is not specified, it is up to the software to decide it by other means. Depending on the type of software, the typical solution is either configuration or charset detection heuristics. Both are prone to mis-prediction in not-then-uncommon scenarios.

The encoding of text files is affected by locale setting, which depends on the user's language, brand of operating system and possibly other weather condition. Therefore, the assumed encoding is systematically wrong for files that come up from a computer with a different setting, or fifty-fifty from a differently localized software inside the same organisation. For Unicode, i solution is to utilize a byte club mark, but for source code and other auto readable text, many parsers don't tolerate this. Another is storing the encoding equally metadata in the file system. File systems that back up extended file attributes can store this as user.charset.^[3] This also requires back up in software that wants to have advantage of it, just does non disturb other software.

While a few encodings are easy to detect, in item UTF-8, there are many that are hard to distinguish (see charset detection). A spider web browser may non be able to distinguish a page coded in EUC-JP and another in Shift-JIS if the coding scheme is not assigned explicitly using HTTP headers sent forth with the documents, or using the HTML document's meta tags that are used to substitute for missing HTTP headers if the server cannot be configured to ship the proper HTTP headers; see character encodings in HTML.

Mis-specification [edit]

Mojibake too occurs when the encoding is wrongly specified. This often happens between encodings that are similar. For example, the Eudora email client for Windows was known to send emails labelled as ISO-8859-ane that were in reality Windows-1252.^[4] The Mac Os version of Eudora did non exhibit this behaviour. Windows-1252 contains extra printable characters in the C1 range (the most frequently seen existence curved quotation marks and extra dashes), that were non displayed properly in software complying with the ISO standard; this especially affected software running under other operating systems such as Unix.

Human being ignorance [edit]

Of the encodings notwithstanding in use, many are partially compatible with each other, with ASCII as the predominant common subset. This sets the stage for human ignorance:

• Compatibility can be a deceptive holding, as the common subset of characters is unaffected past a mixup of two encodings (run across Problems in dissimilar writing systems).
• People think they are using ASCII, and tend to label whatsoever superset of ASCII they really utilize equally "ASCII". Perhaps for simplification, but even in academic literature, the word "ASCII" can be found used as an example of something not compatible with Unicode, where patently "ASCII" is Windows-1252 and "Unicode" is UTF-8.^[1] Note that UTF-8 is backwards compatible with ASCII.

Overspecification [edit]

When at that place are layers of protocols, each trying to specify the encoding based on different information, the least certain information may be misleading to the recipient. For example, consider a spider web server serving a static HTML file over HTTP. The character set may be communicated to the customer in any number of 3 means:

• in the HTTP header. This information can exist based on server configuration (for instance, when serving a file off disk) or controlled by the application running on the server (for dynamic websites).
• in the file, as an HTML meta tag (http-equiv or charset) or the encoding attribute of an XML declaration. This is the encoding that the author meant to save the item file in.
• in the file, equally a byte guild mark. This is the encoding that the author's editor actually saved it in. Unless an adventitious encoding conversion has happened (by opening it in one encoding and saving information technology in another), this volition be correct. Information technology is, notwithstanding, only bachelor in Unicode encodings such equally UTF-8 or UTF-16.

Lack of hardware or software support [edit]

Much older hardware is typically designed to support only one character gear up and the character gear up typically cannot exist altered. The character table independent within the display firmware will exist localized to have characters for the country the device is to be sold in, and typically the table differs from land to state. As such, these systems will potentially brandish mojibake when loading text generated on a system from a different country. As well, many early on operating systems do not support multiple encoding formats and thus will end upward displaying mojibake if made to display non-standard text—early versions of Microsoft Windows and Palm Bone for example, are localized on a per-country basis and will only support encoding standards relevant to the country the localized version volition be sold in, and will display mojibake if a file containing a text in a unlike encoding format from the version that the OS is designed to support is opened.

Resolutions [edit]

Applications using UTF-eight as a default encoding may achieve a greater caste of interoperability because of its widespread utilise and astern compatibility with U.s.a.-ASCII. UTF-8 also has the ability to be directly recognised by a uncomplicated algorithm, so that well written software should be able to avert mixing UTF-8 upwardly with other encodings.

The difficulty of resolving an instance of mojibake varies depending on the application within which it occurs and the causes of it. Two of the virtually common applications in which mojibake may occur are web browsers and word processors. Modern browsers and give-and-take processors often support a wide array of character encodings. Browsers often allow a user to change their rendering engine's encoding setting on the fly, while discussion processors allow the user to select the appropriate encoding when opening a file. It may take some trial and error for users to find the correct encoding.

The problem gets more than complicated when information technology occurs in an application that normally does non back up a wide range of character encoding, such every bit in a not-Unicode computer game. In this case, the user must modify the operating system's encoding settings to match that of the game. Notwithstanding, changing the organization-wide encoding settings tin can also cause Mojibake in pre-existing applications. In Windows XP or afterwards, a user as well has the option to use Microsoft AppLocale, an awarding that allows the changing of per-application locale settings. Yet, changing the operating system encoding settings is not possible on earlier operating systems such as Windows 98; to resolve this issue on earlier operating systems, a user would have to use tertiary party font rendering applications.

Problems in different writing systems [edit]

English [edit]

Mojibake in English texts mostly occurs in punctuation, such as em dashes (—), en dashes (–), and curly quotes (",",','), but rarely in character text, since well-nigh encodings agree with ASCII on the encoding of the English language alphabet. For instance, the pound sign "£" volition appear equally "£" if it was encoded by the sender as UTF-8 just interpreted by the recipient as CP1252 or ISO 8859-i. If iterated using CP1252, this tin can atomic number 82 to "£", "£", "ÃÆ'‚£", etc.

Some computers did, in older eras, have vendor-specific encodings which caused mismatch as well for English text. Commodore brand viii-bit computers used PETSCII encoding, particularly notable for inverting the upper and lower case compared to standard ASCII. PETSCII printers worked fine on other computers of the era, but flipped the case of all messages. IBM mainframes use the EBCDIC encoding which does not match ASCII at all.

Other Western European languages [edit]

The alphabets of the North Germanic languages, Catalan, Finnish, German language, French, Portuguese and Spanish are all extensions of the Latin alphabet. The additional characters are typically the ones that become corrupted, making texts only mildly unreadable with mojibake:

• å, ä, ö in Finnish and Swedish
• à, ç, è, é, ï, í, ò, ó, ú, ü in Catalan
• æ, ø, å in Norwegian and Danish
• á, é, ó, ij, è, ë, ï in Dutch
• ä, ö, ü, and ß in German
• á, ð, í, ó, ú, ý, æ, ø in Faroese
• á, ð, é, í, ó, ú, ý, þ, æ, ö in Icelandic
• à, â, ç, è, é, ë, ê, ï, î, ô, ù, û, ü, ÿ, æ, œ in French
• à, è, é, ì, ò, ù in Italian
• á, é, í, ñ, ó, ú, ü, ¡, ¿ in Spanish
• à, á, â, ã, ç, é, ê, í, ó, ô, õ, ú in Portuguese (ü no longer used)
• á, é, í, ó, ú in Irish
• à, è, ì, ò, ù in Scottish Gaelic
• £ in British English

… and their uppercase counterparts, if applicable.

These are languages for which the ISO-8859-1 graphic symbol set (also known equally Latin ane or Western) has been in apply. However, ISO-8859-ane has been obsoleted by 2 competing standards, the backward compatible Windows-1252, and the slightly altered ISO-8859-xv. Both add the Euro sign € and the French œ, but otherwise whatever confusion of these iii character sets does not create mojibake in these languages. Furthermore, it is always safety to interpret ISO-8859-i as Windows-1252, and fairly safe to translate it as ISO-8859-15, in detail with respect to the Euro sign, which replaces the rarely used currency sign (¤). However, with the advent of UTF-eight, mojibake has go more common in certain scenarios, eastward.g. substitution of text files between UNIX and Windows computers, due to UTF-8's incompatibility with Latin-1 and Windows-1252. Simply UTF-8 has the power to be direct recognised by a uncomplicated algorithm, so that well written software should exist able to avoid mixing UTF-8 up with other encodings, so this was well-nigh common when many had software not supporting UTF-eight. Almost of these languages were supported by MS-DOS default CP437 and other auto default encodings, except ASCII, so problems when buying an operating system version were less common. Windows and MS-DOS are non compatible however.

In Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and German, vowels are rarely repeated, and it is usually obvious when ane character gets corrupted, e.g. the second letter in "kÃ⁠¤rlek" ( kärlek , "love"). This style, fifty-fifty though the reader has to approximate betwixt å, ä and ö, about all texts remain legible. Finnish text, on the other manus, does characteristic repeating vowels in words similar hääyö ("nuptials nighttime") which can sometimes render text very hard to read (e.k. hääyö appears as "hÃ⁠¤Ã⁠¤yÃ⁠¶"). Icelandic and Faroese have x and 8 perchance confounding characters, respectively, which thus can get in more difficult to guess corrupted characters; Icelandic words like þjóðlöð ("outstanding hospitality") get almost entirely unintelligible when rendered as "þjóðlöð".

In German, Buchstabensalat ("letter salad") is a common term for this phenomenon, and in Spanish, deformación (literally deformation).

Some users transliterate their writing when using a computer, either by omitting the problematic diacritics, or by using digraph replacements (å → aa, ä/æ → ae, ö/ø → oe, ü → ue etc.). Thus, an author might write "ueber" instead of "über", which is standard practice in High german when umlauts are not available. The latter do seems to be better tolerated in the German linguistic communication sphere than in the Nordic countries. For example, in Norwegian, digraphs are associated with archaic Danish, and may be used jokingly. However, digraphs are useful in communication with other parts of the earth. Every bit an example, the Norwegian football game player Ole Gunnar Solskjær had his name spelled "SOLSKJAER" on his back when he played for Manchester United.

An antiquity of UTF-viii misinterpreted as ISO-8859-i, "Ring meg nÃ¥" (" Band million nå "), was seen in an SMS scam raging in Kingdom of norway in June 2014.^[5]

Examples

Swedish instance:		Smörgås (open up sandwich)
File encoding	Setting in browser	Result
MS-DOS 437	ISO 8859-1	Sm"rg†south
ISO 8859-1	Mac Roman	SmˆrgÂs
UTF-viii	ISO 8859-ane	Smörgås
UTF-eight	Mac Roman	Smörgåsouth

Central and Eastern European [edit]

Users of Central and Eastern European languages tin too be affected. Because most computers were not connected to any network during the mid- to late-1980s, there were different grapheme encodings for every language with diacritical characters (see ISO/IEC 8859 and KOI-8), often also varying by operating system.

Hungarian [edit]

Hungarian is some other affected language, which uses the 26 basic English characters, plus the accented forms á, é, í, ó, ú, ö, ü (all present in the Latin-1 graphic symbol gear up), plus the ii characters ő and ű, which are not in Latin-1. These two characters can be correctly encoded in Latin-ii, Windows-1250 and Unicode. Before Unicode became common in due east-mail service clients, due east-mails containing Hungarian text frequently had the letters ő and ű corrupted, sometimes to the point of unrecognizability. It is common to answer to an e-mail rendered unreadable (see examples below) by graphic symbol mangling (referred to as "betűszemét", meaning "letter garbage") with the phrase "Árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép", a nonsense phrase (literally "Inundation-resistant mirror-drilling automobile") containing all accented characters used in Hungarian.

Examples [edit]

Source encoding	Target encoding	Result	Occurrence
Hungarian case		ÁRVÍZTŰRŐ TÜKÖRFÚRÓGÉP árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép	Characters in red are incorrect and do not match the top-left example.
CP 852	CP 437	╡RV╓ZTδRè TÜKÖRFΘRαGÉP árvízt√rï tükörfúrógép	This was very mutual in DOS-era when the text was encoded by the Central European CP 852 encoding; all the same, the operating arrangement, a software or printer used the default CP 437 encoding. Delight note that small-example letters are mainly correct, exception with ő (ï) and ű (√). Ü/ü is correct because CP 852 was made compatible with German. Nowadays occurs mainly on printed prescriptions and cheques.
CWI-ii	CP 437	ÅRVìZTÿRº TÜKÖRFùRòGÉP árvíztûrô tükörfúrógép	The CWI-2 encoding was designed and then that the text remains adequately well-readable fifty-fifty if the display or printer uses the default CP 437 encoding. This encoding was heavily used in the 1980s and early 1990s, but nowadays it is completely deprecated.
Windows-1250	Windows-1252	ÁRVÍZTÛRÕ TÜKÖRFÚRÓGÉP árvíztûrõ tükörfúrógép	The default Western Windows encoding is used instead of the Key-European one. Only ő-Ő (õ-Õ) and ű-Ű (û-Û) are wrong, but the text is completely readable. This is the nigh common error nowadays; due to ignorance, it occurs often on webpages or even in printed media.
CP 852	Windows-1250	µRVÖZTëRŠ TšM™RFéRŕG P rvˇztűr‹ t k"rfŁr˘chiliad‚p	Central European Windows encoding is used instead of DOS encoding. The utilise of ű is correct.
Windows-1250	CP 852	┴RV═ZT█RŇ T▄ThouÍRF┌RËOne thousand╔P ßrvÝztűr§ tŘk÷rf˙rˇgÚp	Cardinal European DOS encoding is used instead of Windows encoding. The use of ű is right.
Quoted-printable	7-chip ASCII	=C1RV=CDZT=DBR=D5 T=DCChiliad=D6RF=DAR=D3Thou=C9P =E1rv=EDzt=FBr=F5 t=FCthousand=F6rf=FAr=F3thousand=E9p	Mainly acquired by wrongly configured post servers merely may occur in SMS messages on some cell-phones also.
UTF-eight	Windows-1252	ÁRVÍZTÅ°RŐ TÃœChiliadÖRFÚRÃ"GÉP árvÃztűrÅ' tükörfúrógép	Mainly caused by wrongly configured web services or webmail clients, which were not tested for international usage (as the problem remains concealed for English texts). In this case the actual (often generated) content is in UTF-eight; nevertheless, it is not configured in the HTML headers, so the rendering engine displays it with the default Western encoding.

Polish [edit]

Prior to the cosmos of ISO 8859-2 in 1987, users of various calculating platforms used their own character encodings such as AmigaPL on Amiga, Atari Lodge on Atari ST and Masovia, IBM CP852, Mazovia and Windows CP1250 on IBM PCs. Shine companies selling early on DOS computers created their own mutually-incompatible ways to encode Polish characters and simply reprogrammed the EPROMs of the video cards (typically CGA, EGA, or Hercules) to provide hardware lawmaking pages with the needed glyphs for Smoothen—arbitrarily located without reference to where other computer sellers had placed them.

The situation began to meliorate when, subsequently pressure level from academic and user groups, ISO 8859-ii succeeded as the "Cyberspace standard" with limited support of the dominant vendors' software (today largely replaced by Unicode). With the numerous problems caused by the multifariousness of encodings, fifty-fifty today some users tend to refer to Polish diacritical characters as krzaczki ([kshach-kih], lit. "little shrubs").

Russian and other Cyrillic alphabets [edit]

Mojibake may exist colloquially chosen krakozyabry ( кракозя́бры [krɐkɐˈzʲæbrɪ̈]) in Russian, which was and remains complicated past several systems for encoding Cyrillic.^[half-dozen] The Soviet Union and early Russian Federation developed KOI encodings ( Kod Obmena Informatsiey , Код Обмена Информацией , which translates to "Lawmaking for Information Exchange"). This began with Cyrillic-only vii-bit KOI7, based on ASCII only with Latin and some other characters replaced with Cyrillic letters. Then came 8-scrap KOI8 encoding that is an ASCII extension which encodes Cyrillic letters only with high-bit ready octets corresponding to 7-bit codes from KOI7. Information technology is for this reason that KOI8 text, even Russian, remains partially readable later on stripping the 8th fleck, which was considered as a major reward in the historic period of 8BITMIME-unaware email systems. For example, words " Школа русского языка " shkola russkogo yazyka , encoded in KOI8 and then passed through the high bit stripping process, end up rendered as "[KOLA RUSSKOGO qZYKA". Eventually KOI8 gained different flavors for Russian and Bulgarian (KOI8-R), Ukrainian (KOI8-U), Belarusian (KOI8-RU) and even Tajik (KOI8-T).

Meanwhile, in the W, Code page 866 supported Ukrainian and Byelorussian as well as Russian/Bulgarian in MS-DOS. For Microsoft Windows, Code Folio 1251 added support for Serbian and other Slavic variants of Cyrillic.

Most recently, the Unicode encoding includes lawmaking points for practically all the characters of all the world's languages, including all Cyrillic characters.

Earlier Unicode, it was necessary to friction match text encoding with a font using the same encoding arrangement. Failure to practise this produced unreadable gibberish whose specific appearance varied depending on the exact combination of text encoding and font encoding. For example, attempting to view non-Unicode Cyrillic text using a font that is limited to the Latin alphabet, or using the default ("Western") encoding, typically results in text that consists most entirely of vowels with diacritical marks. (KOI8 " Библиотека " ( biblioteka , library) becomes "âÉÂÌÉÏÔÅËÁ".) Using Windows codepage 1251 to view text in KOI8 or vice versa results in garbled text that consists by and large of majuscule letters (KOI8 and codepage 1251 share the same ASCII region, simply KOI8 has uppercase letters in the region where codepage 1251 has lowercase, and vice versa). In full general, Cyrillic gibberish is symptomatic of using the incorrect Cyrillic font. During the early years of the Russian sector of the World wide web, both KOI8 and codepage 1251 were common. As of 2017, one can still run across HTML pages in codepage 1251 and, rarely, KOI8 encodings, as well equally Unicode. (An estimated 1.7% of all spider web pages worldwide – all languages included – are encoded in codepage 1251.^[seven]) Though the HTML standard includes the ability to specify the encoding for whatsoever given web page in its source,^[eight] this is sometimes neglected, forcing the user to switch encodings in the browser manually.

In Bulgarian, mojibake is often called majmunica ( маймуница ), significant "monkey's [alphabet]". In Serbian, information technology is called đubre ( ђубре ), meaning "trash". Unlike the former USSR, South Slavs never used something like KOI8, and Lawmaking Page 1251 was the ascendant Cyrillic encoding there before Unicode. Therefore, these languages experienced fewer encoding incompatibility troubles than Russian. In the 1980s, Bulgarian computers used their own MIK encoding, which is superficially similar to (although incompatible with) CP866.

Instance

Russian example:		Кракозябры ( krakozyabry , garbage characters)
File encoding	Setting in browser	Result
MS-DOS 855	ISO 8859-1	Æá ÆÖóÞ¢áñ
KOI8-R	ISO 8859-1	ëÒÁËÏÚÑÂÒÙ
UTF-8	KOI8-R	п я─п╟п╨п╬п╥я▐п╠я─я▀

Yugoslav languages [edit]

Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian (the dialects of the Yugoslav Serbo-Croatian language) and Slovenian add to the basic Latin alphabet the letters š, đ, č, ć, ž, and their capital counterparts Š, Đ, Č, Ć, Ž (simply č/Č, š/Š and ž/Ž in Slovene; officially, although others are used when needed, mostly in foreign names, also). All of these messages are defined in Latin-two and Windows-1250, while merely some (š, Š, ž, Ž, Đ) exist in the usual OS-default Windows-1252, and are at that place considering of some other languages.

Although Mojibake tin can occur with any of these characters, the messages that are not included in Windows-1252 are much more than prone to errors. Thus, fifty-fifty present, "šđčćž ŠĐČĆŽ" is ofttimes displayed equally "šðèæž ŠÐÈÆŽ", although ð, è, æ, È, Æ are never used in Slavic languages.

When confined to basic ASCII (near user names, for example), common replacements are: š→s, đ→dj, č→c, ć→c, ž→z (capital forms analogously, with Đ→Dj or Đ→DJ depending on word case). All of these replacements innovate ambiguities, and then reconstructing the original from such a form is ordinarily done manually if required.

The Windows-1252 encoding is important because the English versions of the Windows operating arrangement are well-nigh widespread, not localized ones.^{[ citation needed ]} The reasons for this include a relatively small-scale and fragmented market, increasing the price of high quality localization, a high degree of software piracy (in turn caused by high toll of software compared to income), which discourages localization efforts, and people preferring English versions of Windows and other software.^{[ citation needed ]}

The drive to differentiate Croatian from Serbian, Bosnian from Croatian and Serbian, and now even Montenegrin from the other three creates many problems. There are many different localizations, using different standards and of different quality. There are no common translations for the vast amount of computer terminology originating in English. In the end, people use adopted English language words ("kompjuter" for "computer", "kompajlirati" for "compile," etc.), and if they are unaccustomed to the translated terms may not sympathize what some option in a carte du jour is supposed to do based on the translated phrase. Therefore, people who understand English, besides as those who are accepted to English terminology (who are most, because English terminology is also mostly taught in schools because of these issues) regularly choose the original English versions of non-specialist software.

When Cyrillic script is used (for Macedonian and partially Serbian), the problem is similar to other Cyrillic-based scripts.

Newer versions of English language Windows permit the code folio to exist changed (older versions require special English versions with this support), but this setting can be and often was incorrectly set. For example, Windows 98 and Windows Me can be set up to most non-right-to-left unmarried-byte lawmaking pages including 1250, merely merely at install fourth dimension.

Caucasian languages [edit]

The writing systems of certain languages of the Caucasus region, including the scripts of Georgian and Armenian, may produce mojibake. This trouble is peculiarly acute in the example of ArmSCII or ARMSCII, a set of obsolete character encodings for the Armenian alphabet which have been superseded past Unicode standards. ArmSCII is not widely used considering of a lack of support in the computer manufacture. For instance, Microsoft Windows does non support it.

Asian encodings [edit]

Another type of mojibake occurs when text is erroneously parsed in a multi-byte encoding, such as one of the encodings for Eastward Asian languages. With this kind of mojibake more than one (typically 2) characters are corrupted at one time, e.chiliad. "k舐lek" ( kärlek ) in Swedish, where " är " is parsed as "舐". Compared to the above mojibake, this is harder to read, since messages unrelated to the problematic å, ä or ö are missing, and is especially problematic for short words starting with å, ä or ö such equally "än" (which becomes "舅"). Since two letters are combined, the mojibake too seems more than random (over 50 variants compared to the normal 3, not counting the rarer capitals). In some rare cases, an entire text string which happens to include a blueprint of particular word lengths, such equally the sentence "Bush hid the facts", may exist misinterpreted.

Japanese [edit]

In Japanese, the phenomenon is, equally mentioned, called mojibake ( 文字化け ). It is a particular problem in Nippon due to the numerous different encodings that exist for Japanese text. Alongside Unicode encodings like UTF-8 and UTF-16, there are other standard encodings, such as Shift-JIS (Windows machines) and EUC-JP (UNIX systems). Mojibake, also as existence encountered past Japanese users, is also often encountered by non-Japanese when attempting to run software written for the Japanese market.

Chinese [edit]

In Chinese, the same phenomenon is called Luàn mǎ (Pinyin, Simplified Chinese 乱码 , Traditional Chinese 亂碼 , significant 'chaotic lawmaking'), and tin can occur when computerised text is encoded in 1 Chinese character encoding but is displayed using the wrong encoding. When this occurs, it is often possible to fix the event by switching the character encoding without loss of data. The state of affairs is complicated because of the being of several Chinese character encoding systems in utilize, the most common ones being: Unicode, Big5, and Guobiao (with several backward compatible versions), and the possibility of Chinese characters being encoded using Japanese encoding.

It is easy to identify the original encoding when luanma occurs in Guobiao encodings:

Original encoding	Viewed equally	Result	Original text	Note
Big5	GB	?T瓣в变巨肚	三國志曹操傳	Garbled Chinese characters with no hint of original meaning. The red character is not a valid codepoint in GB2312.
Shift-JIS	GB	暥帤壔偗僥僗僩	文字化けテスト	Kana is displayed equally characters with the radical 亻, while kanji are other characters. Virtually of them are extremely uncommon and not in applied utilise in modern Chinese.
EUC-KR	GB	叼力捞钙胶 抛农聪墨	디제이맥스 테크니카	Random common Simplified Chinese characters which in most cases make no sense. Easily identifiable because of spaces between every several characters.

An additional problem is caused when encodings are missing characters, which is common with rare or antiquated characters that are still used in personal or place names. Examples of this are Taiwanese politicians Wang Chien-shien (Chinese: 王建煊; pinyin: Wáng Jiànxuān )'southward "煊", Yu Shyi-kun (simplified Chinese: 游锡堃; traditional Chinese: 游錫堃; pinyin: Yóu Xíkūn )'s "堃" and vocaliser David Tao (Chinese: 陶喆; pinyin: Táo Zhé )'s "喆" missing in Big5, ex-PRC Premier Zhu Rongji (Chinese: 朱镕基; pinyin: Zhū Róngjī )'south "镕" missing in GB2312, copyright symbol "©" missing in GBK.^[ix]

Newspapers have dealt with this problem in various ways, including using software to combine two existing, similar characters; using a picture of the personality; or simply substituting a homophone for the rare character in the hope that the reader would be able to make the correct inference.

Indic text [edit]

A similar effect can occur in Brahmic or Indic scripts of Southern asia, used in such Indo-Aryan or Indic languages as Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), Bengali, Panjabi, Marathi, and others, even if the character set employed is properly recognized by the awarding. This is considering, in many Indic scripts, the rules by which individual letter of the alphabet symbols combine to create symbols for syllables may non be properly understood by a estimator missing the appropriate software, fifty-fifty if the glyphs for the private letter forms are bachelor.

One example of this is the old Wikipedia logo, which attempts to show the grapheme analogous to "wi" (the outset syllable of "Wikipedia") on each of many puzzle pieces. The puzzle piece meant to behave the Devanagari graphic symbol for "wi" instead used to display the "wa" character followed by an unpaired "i" modifier vowel, easily recognizable as mojibake generated by a estimator not configured to brandish Indic text.^[10] The logo as redesigned as of May 2010^[ref] has fixed these errors.

The idea of Plain Text requires the operating system to provide a font to brandish Unicode codes. This font is dissimilar from Os to Os for Singhala and it makes orthographically wrong glyphs for some messages (syllables) across all operating systems. For instance, the 'reph', the short grade for 'r' is a diacritic that normally goes on height of a plain alphabetic character. However, it is incorrect to go on top of some letters like 'ya' or 'la' in specific contexts. For Sanskritic words or names inherited by modernistic languages, such equally कार्य, IAST: kārya, or आर्या, IAST: āryā, it is apt to put information technology on peak of these letters. By dissimilarity, for like sounds in modern languages which result from their specific rules, information technology is not put on tiptop, such every bit the word करणाऱ्या, IAST: karaṇāryā, a stem form of the common word करणारा/री, IAST: karaṇārā/rī, in the Marathi language.^[11] But information technology happens in well-nigh operating systems. This appears to exist a fault of internal programming of the fonts. In Mac Bone and iOS, the muurdhaja fifty (dark l) and 'u' combination and its long form both yield incorrect shapes.^{[ citation needed ]}

Some Indic and Indic-derived scripts, most notably Lao, were not officially supported by Windows XP until the release of Vista.^[12] Withal, various sites have made free-to-download fonts.

Burmese [edit]

Due to Western sanctions^[13] and the late arrival of Burmese language support in computers,^{[14] [15]} much of the early Burmese localization was homegrown without international cooperation. The prevailing means of Burmese support is via the Zawgyi font, a font that was created as a Unicode font only was in fact merely partially Unicode compliant.^[15] In the Zawgyi font, some codepoints for Burmese script were implemented as specified in Unicode, but others were not.^[16] The Unicode Consortium refers to this as advertizing hoc font encodings.^[17] With the advent of mobile phones, mobile vendors such as Samsung and Huawei but replaced the Unicode compliant system fonts with Zawgyi versions.^[14]

Due to these ad hoc encodings, communications between users of Zawgyi and Unicode would render every bit garbled text. To become around this issue, content producers would make posts in both Zawgyi and Unicode.^[18] Myanmar authorities has designated i October 2019 as "U-Twenty-four hours" to officially switch to Unicode.^[xiii] The full transition is estimated to take ii years.^[19]

African languages [edit]

In sure writing systems of Africa, unencoded text is unreadable. Texts that may produce mojibake include those from the Horn of Africa such as the Ge'ez script in Ethiopia and Eritrea, used for Amharic, Tigre, and other languages, and the Somali language, which employs the Osmanya alphabet. In Southern Africa, the Mwangwego alphabet is used to write languages of Malawi and the Mandombe alphabet was created for the Democratic republic of the congo, but these are non generally supported. Various other writing systems native to West Africa nowadays like problems, such as the N'Ko alphabet, used for Manding languages in Republic of guinea, and the Vai syllabary, used in Republic of liberia.

Arabic [edit]

Another affected language is Arabic (meet below). The text becomes unreadable when the encodings do not lucifer.

Examples [edit]

File encoding	Setting in browser	Consequence
Arabic example:		(Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Browser rendering:		الإعلان العالمى لحقوق الإنسان
UTF-eight	Windows-1252	الإعلان العالمى لحقوق الإنسان
	KOI8-R	О╩©ь╖ы└ь╔ь╧ы└ь╖ы├ ь╖ы└ь╧ь╖ы└ы┘ы┴ ы└ь╜ы┌ы┬ы┌ ь╖ы└ь╔ы├ьЁь╖ы├
	ISO 8859-5	яЛПиЇй�иЅиЙй�иЇй� иЇй�иЙиЇй�й�й� й�ий�й�й� иЇй�иЅй�иГиЇй�
	CP 866	я╗┐╪з┘Д╪е╪╣┘Д╪з┘Ж ╪з┘Д╪╣╪з┘Д┘Е┘Й ┘Д╪н┘В┘И┘В ╪з┘Д╪е┘Ж╪│╪з┘Ж
	ISO 8859-6	ُ؛؟ظ�ع�ظ�ظ�ع�ظ�ع� ظ�ع�ظ�ظ�ع�ع�ع� ع�ظع�ع�ع� ظ�ع�ظ�ع�ظ�ظ�ع�
	ISO 8859-2	اŮ�ŘĽŘšŮ�اŮ� اŮ�ؚاŮ�Ů�Ů� Ů�ŘŮ�Ů�Ů� اŮ�ŘĽŮ�ساŮ�
Windows-1256	Windows-1252	ÇáÅÚáÇä ÇáÚÇáãì áÍÞæÞ ÇáÅäÓÇä

The examples in this article practise non have UTF-8 as browser setting, because UTF-8 is easily recognisable, so if a browser supports UTF-viii it should recognise it automatically, and non try to interpret something else as UTF-8.

Meet also [edit]

• Lawmaking point
• Replacement character
• Substitute character
• Newline – The conventions for representing the line break differ between Windows and Unix systems. Though nigh software supports both conventions (which is trivial), software that must preserve or display the difference (e.thousand. version control systems and information comparison tools) can get substantially more than hard to use if not adhering to 1 convention.
• Byte order mark – The most in-band way to store the encoding together with the data – prepend it. This is by intention invisible to humans using compliant software, simply will by blueprint be perceived as "garbage characters" to incompliant software (including many interpreters).
• HTML entities – An encoding of special characters in HTML, mostly optional, but required for certain characters to escape interpretation as markup.

  While failure to apply this transformation is a vulnerability (see cross-site scripting), applying it as well many times results in garbling of these characters. For case, the quotation marker " becomes ", ", " and so on.

• Bush hid the facts

References [edit]

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3. ^ "Guidelines for extended attributes". 2013-05-17. Retrieved 2015-02-xv .
4. ^ "Unicode mailinglist on the Eudora email client". 2001-05-thirteen. Retrieved 2014-11-01 .
5. ^ "sms-scam". June 18, 2014. Retrieved June 19, 2014.
6. ^ p. 141, Control + Alt + Delete: A Lexicon of Cyberslang, Jonathon Keats, Globe Pequot, 2007, ISBN 1-59921-039-viii.
7. ^ "Usage of Windows-1251 for websites".
8. ^ "Declaring character encodings in HTML".
9. ^ "PRC GBK (XGB)". Microsoft. Archived from the original on 2002-ten-01. Conversion map between Code page 936 and Unicode. Need manually selecting GB18030 or GBK in browser to view it correctly.
10. ^ Cohen, Noam (June 25, 2007). "Some Errors Defy Fixes: A Typo in Wikipedia's Logo Fractures the Sanskrit". The New York Times . Retrieved July 17, 2009.
11. ^ https://marathi.indiatyping.com/
12. ^ "Content Moved (Windows)". Msdn.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2014-02-05 .
13. ^ ^{a b} "Unicode in, Zawgyi out: Modernity finally catches up in Myanmar's digital earth". The Nippon Times. 27 September 2019. Retrieved 24 December 2019. Oct. 1 is "U-Twenty-four hours", when Myanmar officially will adopt the new system.... Microsoft and Apple tree helped other countries standardize years ago, but Western sanctions meant Myanmar lost out.
14. ^ ^{a b} Hotchkiss, Griffin (March 23, 2016). "Battle of the fonts". Frontier Myanmar . Retrieved 24 December 2019. With the release of Windows XP service pack two, complex scripts were supported, which fabricated information technology possible for Windows to return a Unicode-compliant Burmese font such as Myanmar1 (released in 2005). ... Myazedi, Flake, and later Zawgyi, confining the rendering trouble past adding extra code points that were reserved for Myanmar's ethnic languages. Non just does the re-mapping prevent future ethnic language back up, it as well results in a typing system that tin can be disruptive and inefficient, even for experienced users. ... Huawei and Samsung, the ii most popular smartphone brands in Myanmar, are motivated only past capturing the largest market share, which ways they back up Zawgyi out of the box.
15. ^ ^{a b} Sin, Thant (seven September 2019). "Unified under one font system as Myanmar prepares to migrate from Zawgyi to Unicode". Rising Voices . Retrieved 24 December 2019. Standard Myanmar Unicode fonts were never mainstreamed different the private and partially Unicode compliant Zawgyi font. ... Unicode will better natural linguistic communication processing
16. ^ "Why Unicode is Needed". Google Lawmaking: Zawgyi Project . Retrieved 31 October 2013.
17. ^ "Myanmar Scripts and Languages". Ofttimes Asked Questions. Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 24 December 2019. "UTF-viii" technically does not utilize to ad hoc font encodings such as Zawgyi.
18. ^ LaGrow, Nick; Pruzan, Miri (September 26, 2019). "Integrating autoconversion: Facebook'south path from Zawgyi to Unicode - Facebook Engineering". Facebook Engineering. Facebook. Retrieved 25 December 2019. Information technology makes communication on digital platforms difficult, as content written in Unicode appears garbled to Zawgyi users and vice versa. ... In order to better reach their audiences, content producers in Myanmar ofttimes post in both Zawgyi and Unicode in a single post, non to mention English or other languages.
19. ^ Saw Yi Nanda (21 November 2019). "Myanmar switch to Unicode to have two years: app developer". The Myanmar Times . Retrieved 24 Dec 2019.

External links [edit]

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake

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