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| | Mojibake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Mojibake is often caused by forced display of writing systems or character encodings that are "foreign" to the user's computer system: if a computer does not have the software required to process a foreign language's characters, it will attempt to process them in its default language encoding, usually resulting in gibberish. |
 | | As an example, the intended word "文字化け", encoded in UTF-8, might be incorrectly displayed as "•¶Žš‰»‚¯" in software that is not correctly configured to handle Japanese or Unicode. |
 | | During the 1990s, several different encodings for the Cyrillic alphabet (Unix KOI8-R, Windows CP-1251, DOS 866, standard ISO 8859-5, and several others) competed. |
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