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You’ll notice that strings like the one above often contain characters like or Ñ . This is a hallmark of UTF-8 text being misread. Because UTF-8 uses multiple "bytes" to create a single character, a system using an older encoding sees those bytes as two separate, often strange, symbols. How to Fix It
If you encounter this mystery text on your own blog or site, here are the three most common fixes: You’ll notice that strings like the one above
Mojibake (pronounced moh-jee-bah-keh ) comes from the Japanese word for "character transformation." It happens when a computer tries to read text using the wrong "dictionary" (or character encoding). How to Fix It If you encounter this
Think of it like this: If I write a letter in English (UTF-8) but you try to read it using a French-to-German translation guide (Windows-1252), the words won't just be wrong—they’ll be unrecognizable. Why does it look like Russian/Cyrillic? : If the text is coming from a
: If the text is coming from a database, make sure the table is set to utf8mb4 .
: Ensure your HTML includes in the header.
Below is a blog post centered on this phenomenon, using your string as the "mystery" starting point.
