Raphaël VCan someone tell Microsoft that UTF-8 has been around for 3 decades and that maybe they should use for their autocomplete system?
Or maybe I should accept that the new EU currency is the "âĤ¬"
David Cantrell 🏏
Nathan HubbardTIL about #mojibake, the garbled or gibberish text that is the result of text being decoded using an unintended character encoding. Its something we’ve all seen but I didn’t know there was a word for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake
mirabilosGot it!
It’s MacRoman, out of all things!
$ print für | iconv -f mac -t utf8
für
Bit surprised it’s º (male ordinator) not ° (degree sign), as the screenshot misses the line of the ordinator, but that might be a font issue.
Julien PalardBoulanger.com, en 2025, dans un PDF :
> Passé ce délai, votre colis sera automatiquement refusé par nos services.
Bordel.
gabriele renziI found an interesting bug! It's in either iTerm/Terminal.app or in Finder.app
Some hungarian got encoded in non-utf8 and it's now interpreted incorrectly ending up with #mojibake, but the console and the file browser render it differently :)
Notice how the "snake" character ("Gaf" in persian script, I think) moves from left to right.
#Digital ⚓️ #Vagabond 🦈The things that get you excited when you’ve spent too long looking at hex editors… receiving mojibaked invitations for the building’s Whatsapp group! (Although the text is strangely coherent when translated… so it could also be some random crossed wire from the provider)
Mel@[email protected]
#FotoVorschlag
'Mojibake (Zeichensalat)'
…auf einem Wegweiser für den Schiffsverkehr auf der Hunte.
Johannes Beilharz'Mojibake (Zeichensalat)' - Bedeutung unbekannt (Hauswand, Rom Süd) #FotoVorschlag #Zeichensalat #Mojibake #Graffiti #Buchstaben #Fotografie #Rom #Italien #photography #VignetteForAndroid #Mobilfotografie
o'wolf