Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. corrupt characters or letters, especially from display or transfer through an inappropriate character set or encoding, e.g., •¶Žš‰»‚¯, which is a corruption of 文字化け.
Etymologies
- 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). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Right now, its all good for us, no more mojibake which is the main thing.”
“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.”
“Though the Japanese term 文字化け, mojibake, is probably more familiar to English speakers.”
“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.”
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“Chances are you'll end up with mojibake all over the place at some point.”
“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).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mojibake’.
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Babble Tech
Go Babble! Words, if you can call them that, from the world of technology and computers. I'll try to make sure each one is represented by a Wordnik example.
cifsiostat, nfsiostat, mpstat, iostat, pidstat, sar, sysstat, cron, fetchmail, zypper, mysqldump, rsync and 102 more...
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pretty dots all in a row
polka dotted words
hijack, jinx, jingle, beijing, jive, jilted, jittery, jill, hijab, haji, hajj, hijinks and 149 more...
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hildjj's Words
bookmarklet, demisemiquaver, zeitgeist, hermeneutics, oligarch, quisling, absinthe, mellifluent, verisimilitude, implacable, necrotic, nacreous and 243 more...
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It Has a Name??
Yes. Yes it does.
aglet, armsaye, scroop, rowel, ferrule, rasceta, chanking, philtrum, frenulum, keeper, agelast, punt and 285 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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linguistics
holophrasis, polyglot, interrobang, echolalia, glossolalia, alogia, malapropism, sesquipedalian, hapax legomenon, portmanteau, tautology, epigram and 79 more...
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Sheldonfarrell's Words
tarboosh, talaria, rumply, pineappley, rotogravure, table stakes, carnie, tableau vivant, trebuchet, pince-nez, mojibake, portmanteau and 2 more...
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Words I've Found While Reading and Di...
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demijohn, eiderdown, aeolotropic, haptic, fecundity, mojibake, stochastic, nibble, homoskedastic, Entscheidungsproblem, hirsute, mutule and 68 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir Cf. clbuttic mistake, and especially the examples given for clbuttic, which see, ruzuzu. Jan 1, 2013
bilby What's the origin? Is it similar to cupertino? Dec 31, 2012
reesetee 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. Jun 6, 2010