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Mojibake (Japanese: 文字化け; IPA: [mod͡ʑibake]) is the garbled text that is the result of text existence decoded using an unintended character encoding.[i] The consequence is a systematic replacement of symbols with completely unrelated ones, often from a different writing organization.
This display may include the generic replacement graphic symbol ("�") in places where the binary representation is considered invalid. A replacement tin can also involve multiple consecutive symbols, as viewed in 1 encoding, when the aforementioned binary lawmaking constitutes one symbol in the other encoding. This is either because of differing abiding length encoding (as in Asian sixteen-chip encodings vs European 8-bit encodings), or the use of variable length encodings (notably UTF-8 and UTF-sixteen).
Failed rendering of glyphs due to either missing fonts or missing glyphs in a font is a different effect that is not to exist confused with mojibake. Symptoms of this failed rendering include blocks with the code point displayed in hexadecimal or using the generic replacement character. Importantly, these replacements are valid and are the event of right error handling past the software.
Etymology [edit]
Mojibake means "character transformation" in Japanese. The give-and-take is equanimous of 文字 (moji, IPA: [mod͡ʑi]), "grapheme" and 化け (broil, IPA: [bäke̞], pronounced "bah-keh"), "transform".
Causes [edit]
To correctly reproduce the original text that was encoded, the correspondence between the encoded data and the notion of its encoding must be preserved. As mojibake is the instance of non-compliance betwixt these, it can be achieved past manipulating the data itself, or just relabeling it.
Mojibake is often seen with text information that accept been tagged with a wrong encoding; it may non fifty-fifty be tagged at all, only moved between computers with different default encodings. A major source of trouble are communication protocols that rely on settings on each computer rather than sending or storing metadata together with the data.
The differing default settings betwixt computers are in office due to differing deployments of Unicode amongst operating system families, and partly the legacy encodings' specializations for dissimilar writing systems of human languages. Whereas Linux distributions mostly switched to UTF-8 in 2004,[two] Microsoft Windows by and large uses UTF-16, and sometimes uses eight-bit code pages for text files in different languages.[ dubious ]
For some writing systems, an instance existence Japanese, several encodings have historically been employed, causing users to run across mojibake relatively oftentimes. As a Japanese example, the word mojibake "文字化け" stored as EUC-JP might be incorrectly displayed every bit "ﾊｸｻ�ｽ､ｱ", "ﾊｸｻ嵂ｽ､ｱ" (MS-932), or "ﾊｸｻ郾ｽ､ｱ" (Shift JIS-2004). The same text stored equally UTF-8 is displayed as "譁�蟄怜喧縺�" if interpreted equally Shift JIS. This is further exacerbated if other locales are involved: the same UTF-8 text appears as "æ–‡å—化ã'" in software that assumes text to be in the Windows-1252 or ISO-8859-1 encodings, usually labelled Western, or (for example) every bit "鏂囧瓧鍖栥亼" if interpreted as being in a GBK (China) locale.
| Original text | 文 | 字 | 化 | け | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw bytes of EUC-JP encoding | CA | B8 | BB | FA | B2 | BD | A4 | B1 |
| Bytes interpreted as Shift-JIS encoding | ﾊ | ｸ | ｻ | 郾 | ｽ | ､ | ｱ | |
| Bytes interpreted equally ISO-8859-1 encoding | Ê | ¸ | » | ú | ² | ½ | ¤ | ± |
| Bytes interpreted equally GBK encoding | 矢 | 机 | 步 | け | ||||
Underspecification [edit]
If the encoding is not specified, it is up to the software to decide it by other ways. Depending on the type of software, the typical solution is either configuration or charset detection heuristics. Both are prone to mis-prediction in non-then-uncommon scenarios.
The encoding of text files is affected by locale setting, which depends on the user'southward language, make of operating system and possibly other conditions. Therefore, the assumed encoding is systematically wrong for files that come from a calculator with a different setting, or fifty-fifty from a differently localized software inside the same system. For Unicode, ane solution is to employ a byte society mark, but for source code and other machine readable text, many parsers don't tolerate this. Another is storing the encoding as metadata in the file arrangement. File systems that support extended file attributes can store this as user.charset.[3] This also requires support in software that wants to take advantage of it, simply does not disturb other software.
While a few encodings are easy to discover, in particular UTF-8, there are many that are difficult to distinguish (encounter charset detection). A spider web browser may non be able to distinguish a page coded in EUC-JP and some other in Shift-JIS if the coding scheme is non assigned explicitly using HTTP headers sent along with the documents, or using the HTML document'southward meta tags that are used to substitute for missing HTTP headers if the server cannot be configured to send the proper HTTP headers; encounter character encodings in HTML.
Mis-specification [edit]
Mojibake likewise occurs when the encoding is wrongly specified. This often happens between encodings that are similar. For example, the Eudora email customer for Windows was known to transport emails labelled as ISO-8859-1 that were in reality Windows-1252.[4] The Mac OS version of Eudora did not exhibit this behaviour. Windows-1252 contains extra printable characters in the C1 range (the about frequently seen existence curved quotation marks and actress dashes), that were not displayed properly in software complying with the ISO standard; this especially affected software running under other operating systems such as Unix.
Human ignorance [edit]
Of the encodings still in use, many are partially compatible with each other, with ASCII as the predominant common subset. This sets the phase for man ignorance:
- Compatibility tin can be a deceptive holding, as the common subset of characters is unaffected by a mixup of two encodings (encounter Issues in unlike writing systems).
- People think they are using ASCII, and tend to label any superset of ASCII they really utilise equally "ASCII". Maybe for simplification, but fifty-fifty in bookish literature, the word "ASCII" can be institute used as an case of something not compatible with Unicode, where obviously "ASCII" is Windows-1252 and "Unicode" is UTF-8.[1] Note that UTF-8 is backwards compatible with ASCII.
Overspecification [edit]
When in that location are layers of protocols, each trying to specify the encoding based on different information, the least certain data may be misleading to the recipient. For example, consider a web server serving a static HTML file over HTTP. The character set may be communicated to the client in any number of 3 ways:
- in the HTTP header. This data can be based on server configuration (for instance, when serving a file off disk) or controlled past the application running on the server (for dynamic websites).
- in the file, as an HTML meta tag (
http-equivorcharset) or theencodingattribute of an XML declaration. This is the encoding that the author meant to save the particular file in. - in the file, as a byte gild mark. This is the encoding that the writer'southward editor actually saved it in. Unless an accidental encoding conversion has happened (by opening it in one encoding and saving it in some other), this volition be right. It is, however, merely available in Unicode encodings such as UTF-8 or UTF-16.
Lack of hardware or software support [edit]
Much older hardware is typically designed to support only i character set and the character set typically cannot exist altered. The grapheme table contained within the display firmware will be localized to take characters for the state the device is to exist sold in, and typically the tabular array differs from country to country. Equally such, these systems will potentially display mojibake when loading text generated on a system from a dissimilar country. Besides, many early operating systems practise not support multiple encoding formats and thus will end up displaying mojibake if made to brandish non-standard text—early versions of Microsoft Windows and Palm Bone for example, are localized on a per-country basis and will just support encoding standards relevant to the country the localized version volition be sold in, and will display mojibake if a file containing a text in a different encoding format from the version that the OS is designed to support is opened.
Resolutions [edit]
Applications using UTF-8 as a default encoding may reach a greater caste of interoperability because of its widespread use and backward compatibility with The states-ASCII. UTF-eight also has the ability to be direct recognised by a simple algorithm, and so that well written software should exist able to avoid mixing UTF-8 up with other encodings.
The difficulty of resolving an instance of mojibake varies depending on the application inside which it occurs and the causes of it. 2 of the almost common applications in which mojibake may occur are web browsers and word processors. Modern browsers and word processors often support a broad array of character encodings. Browsers frequently allow a user to change their rendering engine's encoding setting on the wing, while word processors allow the user to select the appropriate encoding when opening a file. It may take some trial and error for users to discover the correct encoding.
The problem gets more than complicated when information technology occurs in an awarding that normally does not support a wide range of grapheme encoding, such as in a non-Unicode computer game. In this example, the user must alter the operating system'south encoding settings to match that of the game. However, changing the system-wide encoding settings can likewise cause Mojibake in pre-existing applications. In Windows XP or subsequently, a user also has the choice to use Microsoft AppLocale, an application that allows the changing of per-application locale settings. Still, changing the operating system encoding settings is non possible on earlier operating systems such as Windows 98; to resolve this effect on before operating systems, a user would take to use tertiary political party font rendering applications.
Problems in different writing systems [edit]
English language [edit]
Mojibake in English texts mostly occurs in punctuation, such equally em dashes (—), en dashes (–), and curly quotes (",",','), but rarely in grapheme text, since about encodings hold with ASCII on the encoding of the English alphabet. For example, the pound sign "£" will announced equally "£" if it was encoded past the sender every bit UTF-viii just interpreted past the recipient as CP1252 or ISO 8859-1. If iterated using CP1252, this can lead to "£", "£", "ÃÆ'‚£", etc.
Some computers did, in older eras, have vendor-specific encodings which caused mismatch also for English text. Commodore make 8-flake computers used PETSCII encoding, particularly notable for inverting the upper and lower example compared to standard ASCII. PETSCII printers worked fine on other computers of the era, only flipped the case of all letters. IBM mainframes apply the EBCDIC encoding which does not match ASCII at all.
Other Western European languages [edit]
The alphabets of the Due north Germanic languages, Catalan, Finnish, German, French, Portuguese and Castilian are all extensions of the Latin alphabet. The additional characters are typically the ones that go corrupted, making texts but mildly unreadable with mojibake:
- å, ä, ö in Finnish and Swedish
- à, ç, è, é, ï, í, ò, ó, ú, ü in Catalan
- æ, ø, å in Norwegian and Danish
- á, é, ó, ij, è, ë, ï in Dutch
- ä, ö, ü, and ß in German
- á, ð, í, ó, ú, ý, æ, ø in Faroese
- á, ð, é, í, ó, ú, ý, þ, æ, ö in Icelandic
- à, â, ç, è, é, ë, ê, ï, î, ô, ù, û, ü, ÿ, æ, œ in French
- à, è, é, ì, ò, ù in Italian
- á, é, í, ñ, ó, ú, ü, ¡, ¿ in Spanish
- à, á, â, ã, ç, é, ê, í, ó, ô, õ, ú in Portuguese (ü no longer used)
- á, é, í, ó, ú in Irish
- à, è, ì, ò, ù in Scottish Gaelic
- £ in British English language
… and their capital counterparts, if applicative.
These are languages for which the ISO-8859-1 character set (as well known as Latin 1 or Western) has been in employ. However, ISO-8859-i has been obsoleted by two competing standards, the backward compatible Windows-1252, and the slightly altered ISO-8859-xv. Both add together the Euro sign € and the French œ, simply otherwise any confusion of these 3 grapheme sets does non create mojibake in these languages. Furthermore, information technology is always rubber to translate ISO-8859-1 as Windows-1252, and adequately safety to interpret it as ISO-8859-15, in item with respect to the Euro sign, which replaces the rarely used currency sign (¤). Even so, with the advent of UTF-8, mojibake has become more common in sure scenarios, east.thou. exchange of text files between UNIX and Windows computers, due to UTF-8's incompatibility with Latin-1 and Windows-1252. But UTF-8 has the power to be straight recognised past a elementary algorithm, so that well written software should be able to avoid mixing UTF-8 up with other encodings, so this was almost mutual when many had software non supporting UTF-8. Most of these languages were supported past MS-DOS default CP437 and other auto default encodings, except ASCII, so problems when buying an operating organization version were less mutual. Windows and MS-DOS are not uniform however.
In Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and German language, vowels are rarely repeated, and it is commonly obvious when one grapheme gets corrupted, eastward.g. the second letter in "kärlek" ( kärlek , "love"). This fashion, even though the reader has to guess between å, ä and ö, virtually all texts remain legible. Finnish text, on the other paw, does feature repeating vowels in words like hääyö ("wedding night") which can sometimes render text very hard to read (due east.g. hääyö appears as "hääyö"). Icelandic and Faroese have x and eight possibly confounding characters, respectively, which thus tin can make information technology more hard to guess corrupted characters; Icelandic words like þjóðlöð ("outstanding hospitality") become nearly entirely unintelligible when rendered as "þjóðlöð".
In German, Buchstabensalat ("alphabetic character salad") is a common term for this phenomenon, and in Spanish, deformación (literally deformation).
Some users transliterate their writing when using a figurer, either by omitting the problematic diacritics, or by using digraph replacements (å → aa, ä/æ → ae, ö/ø → oe, ü → ue etc.). Thus, an author might write "ueber" instead of "über", which is standard do in German when umlauts are not available. The latter practise seems to exist better tolerated in the German linguistic communication sphere than in the Nordic countries. For case, in Norwegian, digraphs are associated with archaic Danish, and may be used jokingly. All the same, digraphs are useful in communication with other parts of the world. As an example, the Norwegian football thespian Ole Gunnar Solskjær had his name spelled "SOLSKJAER" on his dorsum when he played for Manchester United.
An antiquity of UTF-8 misinterpreted every bit ISO-8859-one, "Ring meg nÃ¥" (" Band meg nå "), was seen in an SMS scam raging in Norway in June 2014.[5]
| Swedish example: | Smörgås (open sandwich) | |
|---|---|---|
| File encoding | Setting in browser | Result |
| MS-DOS 437 | ISO 8859-1 | Sm"rg†s |
| ISO 8859-1 | Mac Roman | SmˆrgÂs |
| UTF-8 | ISO 8859-i | Smörgås |
| UTF-eight | Mac Roman | Smörgås |
Central and Eastern European [edit]
Users of Central and Eastern European languages tin also be afflicted. Because nearly computers were not connected to any network during the mid- to late-1980s, there were different grapheme encodings for every language with diacritical characters (see ISO/IEC 8859 and KOI-8), often as well varying by operating organisation.
Hungarian [edit]
Hungarian is another afflicted language, which uses the 26 bones English language characters, plus the accented forms á, é, í, ó, ú, ö, ü (all present in the Latin-1 character ready), plus the two characters ő and ű, which are non in Latin-1. These two characters can be correctly encoded in Latin-2, Windows-1250 and Unicode. Before Unicode became mutual in e-mail clients, due east-mails containing Hungarian text often had the letters ő and ű corrupted, sometimes to the indicate of unrecognizability. It is common to answer to an e-mail rendered unreadable (run into examples below) by character mangling (referred to as "betűszemét", meaning "letter garbage") with the phrase "Árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép", a nonsense phrase (literally "Flood-resistant mirror-drilling machine") containing all accented characters used in Hungarian.
Examples [edit]
| Source encoding | Target encoding | Result | Occurrence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hungarian case | ÁRVÍZTŰRŐ TÜKÖRFÚRÓGÉP árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép | Characters in scarlet are incorrect and do non match the top-left example. | |
| CP 852 | CP 437 | ╡RV╓ZTδRè TÜKÖRFΘRαGÉP árvízt√rï tükörfúrógép | This was very common in DOS-era when the text was encoded by the Central European CP 852 encoding; all the same, the operating organization, a software or printer used the default CP 437 encoding. Please note that small-scale-case letters are mainly correct, exception with ő (ï) and ű (√). Ü/ü is right because CP 852 was made compatible with German. Nowadays occurs mainly on printed prescriptions and cheques. |
| CWI-2 | CP 437 | ÅRVìZTÿRº TÜKÖRFùRòGÉP árvíztûrô tükörfúrógép | The CWI-2 encoding was designed so that the text remains fairly well-readable even if the display or printer uses the default CP 437 encoding. This encoding was heavily used in the 1980s and early 1990s, but nowadays it is completely deprecated. |
| Windows-1250 | Windows-1252 | ÁRVÍZTÛRÕ TÜKÖRFÚRÓGÉP árvíztûrõ tükörfúrógép | The default Western Windows encoding is used instead of the Central-European i. Just ő-Ő (õ-Õ) and ű-Ű (û-Û) are wrong, but the text is completely readable. This is the most common error nowadays; due to ignorance, it occurs oftentimes on webpages or even in printed media. |
| CP 852 | Windows-1250 | µRVÖZTëRŠ TšG™RFéRŕG P rvˇztűr‹ t k"rfŁr˘g‚p | Central European Windows encoding is used instead of DOS encoding. The use of ű is correct. |
| Windows-1250 | CP 852 | ┴RV═ZT█RŇ T▄GÍRF┌RËG╔P ßrvÝztűr§ tŘk÷rf˙rˇgÚp | Central European DOS encoding is used instead of Windows encoding. The use of ű is correct. |
| Quoted-printable | vii-bit ASCII | =C1RV=CDZT=DBR=D5 T=DCThou=D6RF=DAR=D3G=C9P =E1rv=EDzt=FBr=F5 t=FCk=F6rf=FAr=F3g=E9p | Mainly caused by wrongly configured mail servers but may occur in SMS messages on some cell-phones equally well. |
| UTF-8 | Windows-1252 | ÃRVÃZTÅ°RÅ TÃœKÖRFÚRÃ"GÉP árvÃztűrÅ' tükörfúrógép | Mainly caused past wrongly configured web services or webmail clients, which were not tested for international usage (as the trouble remains concealed for English texts). In this case the actual (often generated) content is in UTF-viii; however, it is not configured in the HTML headers, and so the rendering engine displays it with the default Western encoding. |
Shine [edit]
Prior to the creation of ISO 8859-2 in 1987, users of various computing platforms used their ain character encodings such as AmigaPL on Amiga, Atari Club on Atari ST and Masovia, IBM CP852, Mazovia and Windows CP1250 on IBM PCs. Shine companies selling early DOS computers created their own mutually-incompatible ways to encode Polish characters and simply reprogrammed the EPROMs of the video cards (typically CGA, EGA, or Hercules) to provide hardware lawmaking pages with the needed glyphs for Polish—arbitrarily located without reference to where other computer sellers had placed them.
The situation began to ameliorate when, after pressure level from academic and user groups, ISO 8859-two succeeded as the "Cyberspace standard" with limited support of the dominant vendors' software (today largely replaced by Unicode). With the numerous problems caused by the diverseness of encodings, even today some users tend to refer to Smooth diacritical characters equally krzaczki ([ˈkʂät͜ʂ.ki], lit. "piffling shrubs").
Russian and other Cyrillic alphabets [edit]
Mojibake may be colloquially chosen krakozyabry ( кракозя́бры [krɐkɐˈzʲæbrɪ̈]) in Russian, which was and remains complicated by several systems for encoding Cyrillic.[6] The Soviet Union and early Russia adult KOI encodings ( Kod Obmena Informatsiey , Код Обмена Информацией , which translates to "Code for Information Exchange"). This began with Cyrillic-only 7-bit KOI7, based on ASCII just with Latin and some other characters replaced with Cyrillic letters. Then came 8-bit KOI8 encoding that is an ASCII extension which encodes Cyrillic letters just with loftier-bit set octets respective to 7-bit codes from KOI7. Information technology is for this reason that KOI8 text, even Russian, remains partially readable after stripping the 8th bit, which was considered as a major advantage in the age of 8BITMIME-unaware email systems. For example, words " Школа русского языка " shkola russkogo yazyka , encoded in KOI8 and then passed through the high bit stripping process, finish up rendered every bit "[KOLA RUSSKOGO qZYKA". Eventually KOI8 gained dissimilar flavors for Russian and Bulgarian (KOI8-R), Ukrainian (KOI8-U), Belarusian (KOI8-RU) and even Tajik (KOI8-T).
Meanwhile, in the West, Code folio 866 supported Ukrainian and Belorussian as well as Russian/Bulgarian in MS-DOS. For Microsoft Windows, Code Folio 1251 added support for Serbian and other Slavic variants of Cyrillic.
About recently, the Unicode encoding includes code points for practically all the characters of all the globe'southward languages, including all Cyrillic characters.
Earlier Unicode, information technology was necessary to match text encoding with a font using the aforementioned encoding system. Failure to do this produced unreadable gibberish whose specific appearance varied depending on the verbal combination of text encoding and font encoding. For example, attempting to view non-Unicode Cyrillic text using a font that is limited to the Latin alphabet, or using the default ("Western") encoding, typically results in text that consists almost entirely of vowels with diacritical marks. (KOI8 " Библиотека " ( biblioteka , library) becomes "âÉÂÌÉÏÔÅËÁ".) Using Windows codepage 1251 to view text in KOI8 or vice versa results in garbled text that consists more often than not of capital letters (KOI8 and codepage 1251 share the same ASCII region, only KOI8 has capital letters in the region where codepage 1251 has lowercase, and vice versa). In full general, Cyrillic gibberish is symptomatic of using the wrong Cyrillic font. During the early years of the Russian sector of the World Broad Web, both KOI8 and codepage 1251 were mutual. As of 2017, i can still encounter HTML pages in codepage 1251 and, rarely, KOI8 encodings, as well equally Unicode. (An estimated 1.7% of all web pages worldwide – all languages included – are encoded in codepage 1251.[7]) Though the HTML standard includes the power to specify the encoding for any given web page in its source,[eight] this is sometimes neglected, forcing the user to switch encodings in the browser manually.
In Bulgarian, mojibake is oft called majmunica ( маймуница ), meaning "monkey'southward [alphabet]". In Serbian, information technology is chosen đubre ( ђубре ), significant "trash". Unlike the former USSR, Due south Slavs never used something similar KOI8, and Code Page 1251 was the dominant Cyrillic encoding there before Unicode. Therefore, these languages experienced fewer encoding incompatibility troubles than Russian. In the 1980s, Bulgarian computers used their own MIK encoding, which is superficially like to (although incompatible with) CP866.
| Russian instance: | Кракозябры ( krakozyabry , garbage characters) | |
|---|---|---|
| File encoding | Setting in browser | Result |
| MS-DOS 855 | ISO 8859-1 | Æá ÆÖóÞ¢áñ |
| KOI8-R | ISO 8859-1 | ëÒÁËÏÚÑÂÒÙ |
| UTF-8 | KOI8-R | п я─п╟п╨п╬п╥я▐п╠я─я▀ |
Yugoslav languages [edit]
Croation, Bosnian, Serbian (the seceding varieties of Serbo-Croatian language) and Slovenian add to the bones Latin alphabet the messages š, đ, č, ć, ž, and their upper-case letter counterparts Š, Đ, Č, Ć, Ž (merely č/Č, š/Š and ž/Ž in Slovenian; officially, although others are used when needed, mostly in strange names, as well). All of these letters are defined in Latin-2 and Windows-1250, while only some (š, Š, ž, Ž, Đ) be in the usual OS-default Windows-1252, and are at that place because of another languages.
Although Mojibake tin can occur with any of these characters, the letters that are not included in Windows-1252 are much more prone to errors. Thus, even present, "šđčćž ŠĐČĆŽ" is often displayed as "šðèæž ŠÐÈÆŽ", although ð, è, æ, È, Æ are never used in Slavic languages.
When confined to basic ASCII (most user names, for example), common replacements are: š→s, đ→dj, č→c, ć→c, ž→z (majuscule forms analogously, with Đ→Dj or Đ→DJ depending on word case). All of these replacements innovate ambiguities, then reconstructing the original from such a course is normally done manually if required.
The Windows-1252 encoding is of import because the English versions of the Windows operating system are most widespread, non localized ones.[ citation needed ] The reasons for this include a relatively small and fragmented market, increasing the price of high quality localization, a high caste of software piracy (in turn acquired past loftier toll of software compared to income), which discourages localization efforts, and people preferring English versions of Windows and other software.[ citation needed ]
The drive to differentiate Croatian from Serbian, Bosnian from Croatian and Serbian, and now even Montenegrin from the other three creates many problems. There are many different localizations, using different standards and of different quality. There are no mutual translations for the vast amount of reckoner terminology originating in English. In the end, people use adopted English language words ("kompjuter" for "reckoner", "kompajlirati" for "compile," etc.), and if they are unaccustomed to the translated terms may not understand what some selection in a card is supposed to practise based on the translated phrase. Therefore, people who understand English, besides as those who are accustomed to English terminology (who are near, because English terminology is also mostly taught in schools considering of these problems) regularly choose the original English versions of non-specialist software.
When Cyrillic script is used (for Macedonian and partially Serbian), the problem is like to other Cyrillic-based scripts.
Newer versions of English Windows allow the lawmaking page to be inverse (older versions crave special English versions with this back up), but this setting tin can be and often was incorrectly set up. For instance, Windows 98 and Windows Me can be set to nearly not-right-to-left single-byte code pages including 1250, but simply at install time.
Caucasian languages [edit]
The writing systems of certain languages of the Caucasus region, including the scripts of Georgian and Armenian, may produce mojibake. This trouble is particularly acute in the example of ArmSCII or ARMSCII, a set of obsolete character encodings for the Armenian alphabet which have been superseded past Unicode standards. ArmSCII is not widely used considering of a lack of support in the computer manufacture. For example, Microsoft Windows does not support it.
Asian encodings [edit]
Another type of mojibake occurs when text is erroneously parsed in a multi-byte encoding, such as one of the encodings for East Asian languages. With this kind of mojibake more than one (typically two) characters are corrupted at once, e.g. "k舐lek" ( kärlek ) in Swedish, where " är " is parsed as "舐". Compared to the above mojibake, this is harder to read, since letters unrelated to the problematic å, ä or ö are missing, and is especially problematic for short words starting with å, ä or ö such as "än" (which becomes "舅"). Since two messages are combined, the mojibake likewise seems more than random (over 50 variants compared to the normal three, not counting the rarer capitals). In some rare cases, an unabridged text cord which happens to include a blueprint of item word lengths, such as the sentence "Bush-league hid the facts", may be misinterpreted.
Vietnamese [edit]
In Vietnamese, the miracle is called chữ ma , loạn mã can occur when estimator attempt to encode diacritic character defined in Windows-1258, TCVN3 or VNI to UTF-8. Chữ ma was common in Vietnam when user was using Windows XP computer or using cheap mobile phone.
| Instance: | Trăm năm trong cõi người ta (Truyện Kiều, Nguyễn Du) | |
|---|---|---|
| Original encoding | Target encoding | Result |
| Windows-1258 | UTF-8 | Trăone thousand năg trong cõi ngÆ°á»i ta |
| TCVN3 | UTF-viii | Tr¨yard due north¨m trong câi ngêi ta |
| VNI (Windows) | UTF-8 | Traêone thousand northwardaêm trong coõi ngöôøi ta |
Japanese [edit]
In Japanese, the same phenomenon is, as mentioned, called mojibake ( 文字化け ). It is a particular problem in Japan due to the numerous different encodings that exist for Japanese text. Alongside Unicode encodings like UTF-8 and UTF-16, there are other standard encodings, such every bit Shift-JIS (Windows machines) and EUC-JP (UNIX systems). Mojibake, as well as being encountered past Japanese users, is also frequently encountered by non-Japanese when attempting to run software written for the Japanese market.
Chinese [edit]
In Chinese, the same phenomenon is called Luàn mǎ (Pinyin, Simplified Chinese 乱码 , Traditional Chinese 亂碼 , meaning 'chaotic code'), and can occur when computerised text is encoded in one Chinese character encoding but is displayed using the wrong encoding. When this occurs, information technology is frequently possible to fix the issue past switching the character encoding without loss of data. The state of affairs is complicated because of the beingness of several Chinese grapheme encoding systems in employ, the most mutual ones being: Unicode, Big5, and Guobiao (with several backward uniform versions), and the possibility of Chinese characters being encoded using Japanese encoding.
Information technology is like shooting fish in a barrel to identify the original encoding when luanma occurs in Guobiao encodings:
| Original encoding | Viewed as | Result | Original text | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big5 | GB | ?T瓣в变巨肚 | 三國志曹操傳 | Garbled Chinese characters with no hint of original pregnant. The red character is not a valid codepoint in GB2312. |
| Shift-JIS | GB | 暥帤壔偗僥僗僩 | 文字化けテスト | Kana is displayed every bit characters with the radical 亻, while kanji are other characters. Most of them are extremely uncommon and not in practical use in modern Chinese. |
| EUC-KR | GB | 叼力捞钙胶 抛农聪墨 | 디제이맥스 테크니카 | Random common Simplified Chinese characters which in most cases make no sense. Easily identifiable because of spaces between every several characters. |
An additional problem is caused when encodings are missing characters, which is common with rare or blowsy characters that are still used in personal or place names. Examples of this are Taiwanese politicians Wang Chien-shien (Chinese: 王建煊; pinyin: Wáng Jiànxuān )'southward "煊", Yu Shyi-kun (simplified Chinese: 游锡堃; traditional Chinese: 游錫堃; pinyin: Yóu Xíkūn )'s "堃" and singer David Tao (Chinese: 陶喆; pinyin: Táo Zhé )'southward "喆" missing in Big5, ex-People's republic of china Premier Zhu Rongji (Chinese: 朱镕基; pinyin: Zhū Róngjī )'south "镕" missing in GB2312, copyright symbol "©" missing in GBK.[9]
Newspapers take dealt with this problem in various ways, including using software to combine two existing, like characters; using a film of the personality; or simply substituting a homophone for the rare character in the promise that the reader would be able to brand the right inference.
Indic text [edit]
A like effect can occur in Brahmic or Indic scripts of South asia, used in such Indo-Aryan or Indic languages as Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), Bengali, Punjabi, Marathi, and others, even if the character gear up employed is properly recognized past the application. This is because, in many Indic scripts, the rules by which private letter symbols combine to create symbols for syllables may not be properly understood past a computer missing the appropriate software, even if the glyphs for the individual alphabetic character forms are available.
One example of this is the sometime Wikipedia logo, which attempts to show the graphic symbol coordinating to "wi" (the first syllable of "Wikipedia") on each of many puzzle pieces. The puzzle piece meant to deport the Devanagari character for "wi" instead used to display the "wa" grapheme followed by an unpaired "i" modifier vowel, easily recognizable as mojibake generated by a calculator not configured to display Indic text.[ten] The logo as redesigned as of May 2010[ref] has fixed these errors.
The idea of Plain Text requires the operating system to provide a font to display Unicode codes. This font is dissimilar from OS to Os for Singhala and it makes orthographically wrong glyphs for some letters (syllables) across all operating systems. For instance, the 'reph', the short form for 'r' is a diacritic that ordinarily goes on elevation of a plain letter. Withal, it is wrong to go along top of some letters like 'ya' or 'la' in specific contexts. For Sanskritic words or names inherited by modern languages, such as कार्य, IAST: kārya, or आर्या, IAST: āryā, it is apt to put information technology on top of these letters. By contrast, for similar sounds in modern languages which outcome from their specific rules, it is not put on top, such as the word करणाऱ्या, IAST: karaṇāryā, a stem course of the mutual word करणारा/री, IAST: karaṇārā/rī, in the Marathi linguistic communication.[11] But it happens in nearly operating systems. This appears to be a fault of internal programming of the fonts. In Mac Bone and iOS, the muurdhaja l (nighttime l) and 'u' combination and its long course both yield wrong shapes.[ citation needed ]
Some Indic and Indic-derived scripts, most notably Lao, were non officially supported past Windows XP until the release of Vista.[12] Still, diverse sites have made free-to-download fonts.
Burmese [edit]
Due to Western sanctions[13] and the belatedly arrival of Burmese language support in computers,[14] [fifteen] much of the early Burmese localization was homegrown without international cooperation. The prevailing means of Burmese back up is via the Zawgyi font, a font that was created as a Unicode font but was in fact but partially Unicode compliant.[fifteen] In the Zawgyi font, some codepoints for Burmese script were implemented every bit specified in Unicode, simply others were not.[16] The Unicode Consortium refers to this as ad hoc font encodings.[17] With the appearance of mobile phones, mobile vendors such as Samsung and Huawei simply replaced the Unicode compliant organization fonts with Zawgyi versions.[14]
Due to these ad hoc encodings, communications between users of Zawgyi and Unicode would return as garbled text. To go around this issue, content producers would brand posts in both Zawgyi and Unicode.[18] Myanmar authorities has designated i October 2022 as "U-Solar day" to officially switch to Unicode.[13] The full transition is estimated to accept two years.[nineteen]
African languages [edit]
In certain writing systems of Africa, unencoded text is unreadable. Texts that may produce mojibake include those from the Horn of Africa such as the Ge'ez script in Ethiopia and Eritrea, used for Amharic, Tigre, and other languages, and the Somali language, which employs the Osmanya alphabet. In Southern Africa, the Mwangwego alphabet is used to write languages of Republic of malaŵi and the Mandombe alphabet was created for the Democratic Congo-brazzaville, but these are non mostly supported. Various other writing systems native to West Africa present similar bug, such every bit the Northward'Ko alphabet, used for Manding languages in Republic of guinea, and the Vai syllabary, used in Republic of liberia.
Arabic [edit]
Another affected language is Arabic (run across below). The text becomes unreadable when the encodings do non match.
Examples [edit]
| File encoding | Setting in browser | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Standard arabic example: |  (Universal Declaration of Human being Rights) | |
| Browser rendering: | الإعلان العالمى لحقوق الإنسان | |
| UTF-eight | Windows-1252 | الإعلان العالمى Ù„Øقوق الإنسان |
| KOI8-R | О╩©ь╖ы└ь╔ь╧ы└ь╖ы├ ь╖ы└ь╧ь╖ы└ы┘ы┴ ы└ь╜ы┌ы┬ы┌ ь╖ы└ь╔ы├ьЁь╖ы├ | |
| ISO 8859-v | яЛПиЇй�иЅиЙй�иЇй� иЇй�иЙиЇй�й�й� й�ий�й�й� иЇй�иЅй�иГиЇй� | |
| CP 866 | я╗┐╪з┘Д╪е╪╣┘Д╪з┘Ж ╪з┘Д╪╣╪з┘Д┘Е┘Й ┘Д╪н┘В┘И┘В ╪з┘Д╪е┘Ж╪│╪з┘Ж | |
| ISO 8859-6 | ُ؛؟ظ�ع�ظ�ظ�ع�ظ�ع� ظ�ع�ظ�ظ�ع�ع�ع� ع�ظع�ع�ع� ظ�ع�ظ�ع�ظ�ظ�ع� | |
| ISO 8859-two | اŮ�ŘĽŘšŮ�اŮ� اŮ�ؚاŮ�Ů�Ů� Ů�ŘŮ�Ů�Ů� اŮ�ŘĽŮ�ساŮ� | |
| Windows-1256 | Windows-1252 | ÇáÅÚáÇä ÇáÚÇáãì áÍÞæÞ ÇáÅäÓÇä |
The examples in this commodity do non have UTF-8 as browser setting, considering UTF-8 is hands recognisable, then if a browser supports UTF-8 it should recognise it automatically, and not attempt to translate something else as UTF-8.
Meet also [edit]
- Lawmaking indicate
- Replacement grapheme
- Substitute character
- Newline – The conventions for representing the line break differ between Windows and Unix systems. Though most software supports both conventions (which is trivial), software that must preserve or display the difference (e.g. version control systems and information comparison tools) can go substantially more difficult to utilise if not adhering to one convention.
- Byte order mark – The most in-ring way to store the encoding together with the data – prepend it. This is by intention invisible to humans using compliant software, merely will past design exist perceived as "garbage characters" to incompliant software (including many interpreters).
- HTML entities – An encoding of special characters in HTML, mostly optional, simply required for certain characters to escape interpretation as markup.
While failure to employ this transformation is a vulnerability (see cross-site scripting), applying it too many times results in garbling of these characters. For case, the quotation mark
"becomes",","and so on. - Bush-league hid the facts
References [edit]
- ^ a b King, Ritchie (2012). "Volition unicode shortly be the universal code? [The Information]". IEEE Spectrum. 49 (7): threescore. doi:10.1109/MSPEC.2012.6221090.
- ^ WINDISCHMANN, Stephan (31 March 2004). "coil -v linux.ars (Internationalization)". Ars Technica . Retrieved v October 2018.
- ^ "Guidelines for extended attributes". 2013-05-17. Retrieved 2015-02-15 .
- ^ "Unicode mailinglist on the Eudora email client". 2001-05-13. Retrieved 2014-11-01 .
- ^ "sms-scam". June eighteen, 2014. Retrieved June nineteen, 2014.
- ^ p. 141, Control + Alt + Delete: A Dictionary of Cyberslang, Jonathon Keats, Globe Pequot, 2007, ISBN ane-59921-039-8.
- ^ "Usage of Windows-1251 for websites".
- ^ "Declaring character encodings in HTML".
- ^ "Cathay GBK (XGB)". Microsoft. Archived from the original on 2002-10-01. Conversion map between Code page 936 and Unicode. Demand manually selecting GB18030 or GBK in browser to view information technology correctly.
- ^ Cohen, Noam (June 25, 2007). "Some Errors Defy Fixes: A Typo in Wikipedia's Logo Fractures the Sanskrit". The New York Times . Retrieved July 17, 2009.
- ^ https://marāthi.indiatyping.com/
- ^ "Content Moved (Windows)". Msdn.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2014-02-05 .
- ^ a b "Unicode in, Zawgyi out: Modernity finally catches upwardly in Myanmar'south digital world". The Nippon Times. 27 September 2019. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
Oct. one is "U-24-hour interval", when Myanmar officially will adopt the new system.... Microsoft and Apple tree helped other countries standardize years ago, simply Western sanctions meant Myanmar lost out.
- ^ a b Hotchkiss, Griffin (March 23, 2016). "Battle of the fonts". Borderland Myanmar . Retrieved 24 Dec 2019.
With the release of Windows XP service pack 2, complex scripts were supported, which made it possible for Windows to render a Unicode-compliant Burmese font such as Myanmar1 (released in 2005). ... Myazedi, Scrap, and afterward Zawgyi, confining the rendering problem by adding extra code points that were reserved for Myanmar'south ethnic languages. Not but does the re-mapping prevent future ethnic language support, it too results in a typing system that can exist disruptive and inefficient, even for experienced users. ... Huawei and Samsung, the ii most popular smartphone brands in Myanmar, are motivated just by capturing the largest market place share, which means they back up Zawgyi out of the box.
- ^ a b Sin, Thant (seven September 2019). "Unified under one font system every bit Myanmar prepares to migrate from Zawgyi to Unicode". Rising Voices . Retrieved 24 December 2019.
Standard Myanmar Unicode fonts were never mainstreamed unlike the private and partially Unicode compliant Zawgyi font. ... Unicode volition better natural language processing
- ^ "Why Unicode is Needed". Google Code: Zawgyi Projection . Retrieved 31 October 2013.
- ^ "Myanmar Scripts and Languages". Ofttimes Asked Questions. Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
"UTF-eight" technically does not use to ad hoc font encodings such as Zawgyi.
- ^ LaGrow, Nick; Pruzan, Miri (September 26, 2019). "Integrating autoconversion: Facebook's path from Zawgyi to Unicode - Facebook Engineering". Facebook Engineering. Facebook. Retrieved 25 Dec 2019.
It makes communication on digital platforms difficult, as content written in Unicode appears garbled to Zawgyi users and vice versa. ... In guild to amend reach their audiences, content producers in Myanmar oftentimes post in both Zawgyi and Unicode in a unmarried post, not to mention English or other languages.
- ^ Saw Yi Nanda (21 November 2019). "Myanmar switch to Unicode to have two years: app developer". The Myanmar Times . Retrieved 24 December 2019.
External links [edit]
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake
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