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MENTAL MODEL · M1292

Mojibake

Mojibake
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-28

CORE DEFINITION

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Mojibake refers to the display of meaningless characters or blank spaces when a computer system cannot display the correct characters, usually as a result of decoding text with an unexpected character encoding. The displayed text is collectively called mojibake. In addition, meaningless characters obtained by decoding non-text data as text are also called mojibake. Rendering failure due to missing fonts or missing glyphs in a font is a different issue, where text is usually displayed as tofu (□) or hexadecimal codes, and should not be confused with mojibake.

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Encoding/decoding mismatch causes character corruption, metaphorically indicating information distortion due to 'protocol mismatch' in transmission, highlighting the importance of aligning encodings.

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