Catchword: mojibake

Filed Under: Japanese, Technology

Part of Speech: n.

Quotation: Mojibake is a word to describe unintelligible gibberish displayed on a screen or printed on a paper when a software fails to handle encodings or fonts in the data stream. Mojibake is spelled in Japanese as “文字化け” which literally means “ghost characters” or “disguised characters.” Here, a set of ideograms “文字” means “character(s)” and an ideogram “化” means “change(d),” “transform(ed),” “haunt(ed)” or “ghost.”

Article or Document Title:
“What Is Mojibake?” (URL)

Author:
Tomohiro Kubota

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
Tomohiro Kubota

Date of Publication:
Oct. 10, 2003

This catchword has yet to be researched.