andrel's Journal: Word of the day: mojibake

mojibake is the garbage one sees when software can't handle a document encoded in a foreign character set. The word comes from Japanese. Not yet in the OED. See Tomohiro KUBOTA's mojibake etymology and the wikipedia entry.

I am delighted that my web browser renders the comprehensive guide to mojibake entirely in mojibake. Parts of Crism's "I don't know, I just work here" also render as mojibake, although less than one would expect.

Current music: SBN via URN1350.