Mojibake
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- Published: Monday, 18 April 2016 22:02
Help, special characters! – mojibake (jumble of characters)
A service from special characters help
| Initial coding | Web browser setting | Display in the web browser |
| Unicode (UTF-8) | Unicode (UTF-8) | Falsches Üben von Xylophonmusik quält jeden größeren Zwerg. (1) |
| Unicode (UTF-8) | Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1/-15) |
Falsches Ãoeben von Xylophonmusik quält jeden größeren Zwerg. → a 16-bit character is divided into two 8-bit characters |
| Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1/-15) | Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1/-15) | Falsches Üben von Xylophonmusik quält jeden größeren Zwerg. |
| Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1/-15) | Unicode (UTF-8) | Falsches �ben von Xylophonmusik qu�lt jeden gr��eren Zwerg. |
Initial coding and final coding must be the same, otherwise there will be jumble of characters.
If the output encoding UTF-8, it is necessary to the set the Web browser also to UTF-8 set (view/character encoding → Unicode).
As alternative to a webmail interface, you can use a Unicode-enabled email client (Thunderbird, Outlook, etc.).
Unfortunately, these programs are set by default to 8-bit character sets. They must first be manually switched to Unicode:
Thunderbird: View/Character Encoding
Outlook: Tools/Options/E-mail format/International_Options/encoding options
In HTML5, UTF-8 is the default encoding, so this should be used if possible.
(1) “Incorrect practicing of xylophone music torments every larger dwarf”, a pangram in German.