Mojibake
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Mojibake
Incorrectly interpreted character encoding
This example was made in Russia, 2011.
Сyrillic “моя страна” in mojibake. A Latin-1-only Sony device plays a Bulgarian song. 2012.
A thin-client browser, Windows-1252 only, on a page with a text in Shift JIS. Some Japanese and the © character are present. c. 2001.
This is neither Japanese nor Chinese. Only a byte-oriented stream viewed as UTF-16 due to limitations of Microsoft’s IsTextUnicode().
Cool Mozilla coders know how to interpret Internet Media Types better than IETF; the “text” is in the left-bottom corner. The bug was introduced c. 2012.
Centericq, running in a Latin-1 terminal, shows a UTF-8-encoded nick.
Failed encoding/decoding
The font engine of a Kodak printer failed.
Javanese replacement question marks.
Missing characters or inappropriate glyphs
A standard Universal Character Set replacement box with a code point in hexadecimal.
Incompetent vector graphics production. Labels converted to <path> using a font lacking comma-bearing Romanian letters in Constanța and Ploiești. Rectangles are exported in place of those.
Japanese language. The font has a short supply of Kanji characters.
Not mojibake, strictly speaking, but a typeface inappropriate for Russian language. Made in Serbia
汉语 (U+6C49 U+8BED) rendered as 6C49 8BED code point in hexadecimal
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