How to Fix Garbled Text (Mojibake) Online
Garbled text, also known as mojibake (文字化け), occurs when text is decoded using the wrong character encoding.
This commonly happens with Chinese (中文), Japanese (日本語), Korean (한국어), and other non-Latin scripts.
Our tool automatically detects and repairs these encoding issues in seconds.
Common Garbled Text Problems We Fix
- Chinese Garbled Text (乱码): "ÄãºÃ" instead of "你好" - usually GBK/GB18030 displayed as Latin-1
- Japanese Mojibake: "日本語" instead of "日本語" - UTF-8 bytes shown as Windows-1252
- Smart Quotes Issues: "’" instead of "'" - common in Word documents and emails
- Korean Encoding Errors: "í•œêµì–´" instead of "한국어"
- Russian Cyrillic Issues: Windows-1251 encoding problems
Supported Character Encodings
Our decoder supports all major character encodings:
- UTF-8: Universal encoding for all languages (recommended standard)
- GBK / GB18030: Simplified Chinese (mainland China)
- Big5: Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, Hong Kong)
- Shift-JIS: Japanese text encoding
- EUC-KR: Korean text encoding
- Windows-1251: Cyrillic (Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian)
- Windows-1252: Western European languages
- ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1): Western European legacy encoding
Why Choose Our Garbled Text Fixer?
- ✅ Auto-Detection: Automatically identifies the correct encoding
- ✅ 100% Privacy: All processing happens in your browser - no server uploads
- ✅ Instant Results: Fix text in real-time with no waiting
- ✅ Free Forever: No registration, no limits, no ads
- ✅ Works Offline: Once loaded, works without internet connection
When Do You Need This Tool?
Common scenarios where garbled text appears:
- Opening CSV files from Excel with Chinese/Japanese characters
- Copying text from PDF documents with encoding issues
- Reading email headers or subjects with broken characters
- Viewing database exports with wrong encoding settings
- Extracting text from legacy software or old files
- Fixing website content that displays incorrectly
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