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what happens when your computer speaks fluent gibberish because two alphabets never agreed to meet.
means garbled text that appears when a program reads characters using the wrong text encoding.
from from japanese moji (character) and bake (transform/change) — literally character transformation, coined for when japanese text turned into unreadable symbol soup on early computers.
classic symptomquestion marks or boxes replacing letters
common causeutf-8 text read as latin-1
favorite victimemails, curly quotes turn into ’
still happensdespite unicode existing since 1991