Meaning

1 senses
  1. (uncountable)Corrupt characters or letters, especially resulting from being displayed or transferred through an inappropriate character set or encoding.

    Mojibake, Krähenfüße, Zeichensalat

    модзиба́кеmodzibáke, бнопня́bnopnjá, бНОПНЯ́bNOPNJÁ

    крокозя́браkrokozjábra

Translations

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Origin

Borrowed from Japanese 文字化け (mojibake), from 文字 (moji, “character”) + 化ける (bakeru, “to tra

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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