What Does Mojibake Mean?
Mojibake is a term in IT that describes instances where text is improperly decoded, resulting in nonsense or random symbols. Mojibake happens largely due to the replacement of a set of unrelated symbols in a different code structure.
Techopedia Explains Mojibake
Some experts describe mojibake situations where text data has been sent between computers with different default encodings. These and other kinds of changes result in the same underlying bits and bytes being represented in ways that do not make sense to the recipient.
