Mojibake (文字化け; IPA: [mod͡ʑibake]) is the garbled text that is the result of text being decoded using an unintended character encoding. The result is a systematic replacement of symbols with completely unrelated ones, often from a different writing system.
What causes mojibake?
Mojibake (文字化け; IPA: [mod͡ʑibake]) is the garbled text that is the result of text being decoded using an unintended character encoding. Symptoms of this failed rendering include blocks with the code point displayed in hexadecimal or using the generic replacement character.
How do I fix garbled text?
To fix unreadable text issues, go to the Preprocessing settings inside of your Document Parser (SETTINGS > PREPROCESSING) and set the option "Perform OCR" to "Yes - always perform OCR" as shown in the screenshot below.
What kind of character is â?
What is this character ( Â ) and how do I remove it with PHP? It is showing up in strings pulled from webpages. It shows up where there was previously an empty space in the original string on the original site. This is the actual character that is stored in my database.Sep 6, 2017
What character is 0xC3?
What character is xe9?
1 Answer. \xe9 is an encoded string. u'\xe9' is a Unicode string that contains the unicode character U+00E9 (LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE).
Which character is Ã?
A with tilde (majuscule: Ã, minuscule: ã) is a letter of the Latin alphabet formed by addition of the tilde diacritic over the letter A. It is used in Portuguese, Guaraní, Kashubian, Taa, Aromanian, and Vietnamese.
Why does É become Ã?
The reason lies in the UTF-8 representation. Characters below or equal to 127 ( 0x7F ) are represented with 1 byte only, and this is equivalent to the ASCII value. “é” is therefore between 127 and 2027 (233), so it will be coded on 2 bytes. Therefore its UTF-8 representation is 11000011 10101001 .
What is the meaning of à ⠀?
It is a character encoding issue. Whom ever is sending the mail is using a character set that is not appropriate. View menu (Alt+V) > character encoding and select UTF-8 or unicode should see the correct display. It is a character encoding issue.
What type of encoding is UTF-8?
Unicode
Can UTF-8 handle special characters?
Since ASCII bytes do not occur when encoding non-ASCII code points into UTF-8, UTF-8 is safe to use within most programming and document languages that interpret certain ASCII characters in a special way, such as / (slash) in filenames, \ (backslash) in escape sequences, and % in printf.
UTF8 is a specification for a binary data format for Unicode characters and strings, so yes, it supports all languages just by being a specification for a binary data format.