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mojibake en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /-keɪ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˌmoʊd͡ʒiˈbɑki/ (General-American)
  • /-keɪ/ (General-American)
  • /ˌməʊd͡ʒiˈbɑːki/ (Received-Pronunciation)

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).

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Corrupt characters or letters, especially resulting from being displayed or transferred through an inappropriate character set or encoding.
    • Alas, you'll even see “text” files where some lines have one encoding but other lines have different encodings. You are guaranteed to see mojibake. 2012, Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 285:
    • The space behind the door is filled with mojibake, more specifically, a mojibake that is made of pieces of my memory. “Why? Why do I like girls?” I hear a younger voice of mine echoing in the room. 2021, Lydia Chen, When the Flowers Withered, Singapore: Partridge Publishing, →ISBN:

Relateds

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Translations (47)

ko 깨진 문자 (corrupt characters or letters) · ru крокозя́бра (corrupt characters or letters) · ar مُوجِيبَاكِي (corrupt characters or letters) · sh đȕbre (corrupt characters or letters) · pt mojibake (corrupt characters or letters) · de Zeichensalat (corrupt characters or letters) · de Mojibake (corrupt characters or letters) · ja 文字化け (corrupt characters or letters) · hu modzsibake (corrupt characters or letters) · uk крокозя́бра (corrupt characters or letters) · nl mojibake (corrupt characters or letters) · gmw-cfr Bochstabesallaat (corrupt characters or letters) · ru зю́ква (corrupt characters or letters) · ko 글자 깨짐 (corrupt characters or letters) · ru крякозя́бра (corrupt characters or letters) · nan-hbl 亂碼 /乱码 (corrupt characters or letters) · nb tegnsalat (corrupt characters or letters) · ro maimuțica (corrupt characters or letters) · bg маймуница (corrupt characters or letters) · ko 깨진 글자 (corrupt characters or letters) · yue 亂碼 /乱码 (corrupt characters or letters) · vi loạn mã (corrupt characters or letters) · sv mojibake (corrupt characters or letters) · de Krähenfüße (corrupt characters or letters) · sh ђу̏бре (corrupt characters or letters) · gl mojibake (corrupt characters or letters) · cmn 亂碼 /乱码 (corrupt characters or letters) · ru бнопня́ (corrupt characters or letters) · nn teiknsalat (corrupt characters or letters) · fi mojibake (corrupt characters or letters) · hu betűszemét (corrupt characters or letters) · ru закаля́ка (corrupt characters or letters) · he סינית (corrupt characters or letters) · fa موجیباکه (corrupt characters or letters) · ru модзиба́ке (corrupt characters or letters) · hu krikszkraksz (corrupt characters or letters) · ru бНОПНЯ́ (corrupt characters or letters) · es mojibake (corrupt characters or letters) · it mojibake (corrupt characters or letters) · ko 문자 깨짐 (corrupt characters or letters) · ru кракозя́бра (corrupt characters or letters) · be краказя́бра (corrupt characters or letters) · fr mojibake (corrupt characters or letters) · eo moĝibako (corrupt characters or letters) · pl krzaczki (corrupt characters or letters) · ru бу́ква «зю» (corrupt characters or letters) · th ภาษาต่างดาว (corrupt characters or letters)