mojibake
Meanings
noun
- Corrupt characters or letters, especially resulting from being displayed or transferred through an inappropriate character set or encoding.
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 文字化け (mojibake), from 文字 (moji, “character”) + 化ける (bakeru, “to transform, take a different form”, generally in a negative way).
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