See http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/mojibake/

And http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake

And many others if you type mojibake into Google.

Pronunciation is mo-ji-ba-kay.

RI


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Richard Ishida
W3C

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark E. Shoulson [mailto:mark@...]
> Sent: 09 July 2004 18:26
> To: qalam@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [OT] Mojibake (was RE: How about a typology for
> input methods)
>
> Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>
> >Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I don't know what mojibake is (it would be nice if it's like a
> >>clambake), but all I see at the top of his posting is a
> >>random-appearing string of ASCII characters.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >And that's exactly what IT people call "mojibake" (BTW, they are
> >*non*-ASCII characters, to be precise).
> >
> >I guess the humorous term was invented by some exasperated Japanese
> >computer engineer. AFAIK, it means something like "scrambled
> >characters" or "soup of characters".
> >
> >
> I've only heard of this relatively recently (though before
> this particular conversation). What's known about the origin
> of the word?
> Where did it start showing up first? And is it /mod??be?k/
> or /mod??bake/?
>
> ~mark
>
>
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