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Fix garbled text (mojibake) caused by wrong-encoding decoding — reverse UTF-8/Latin-1, Windows-1252, GBK, Shift-JIS, Big5, and MacRoman chains. Auto mode tries all and picks the cleanest result.
Details
Mojibake is the garbled text you see when bytes were encoded in one character encoding but decoded as another (e.g. UTF-8 bytes shown as Latin-1, producing é instead of é). This tool reverses the wrong decode: it re-encodes the garbled string using the suspected wrong decoder, then re-decodes those bytes with the correct encoding. Auto mode tries every common chain (Latin-1, Windows-1252, GBK, Shift-JIS, Big5, MacRoman) and scores each candidate by how much clean printable text it yields, so you can paste mystery garble and let the detective find the original. Great for fixing broken CSV exports, mislabeled web pages, database import artifacts, and copy-paste between locales.
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Mojibake Repair fixes garbled text caused by decoding bytes with the wrong character encoding. Paste text such as "café" or "ä¸æ–‡", choose a repair chain, or let Auto mode test supported chains and select the cleanest result.
Background
An exported record displays the French word "café" as "café" because UTF-8 bytes were read as Latin-1.
Problem
Recover the readable accented text without manually testing encoding combinations.
How to use
Paste "café" into the Garbled text field and leave Repair chain set to Auto.
text: "café"; chain: "auto"Outcome
The tool identifies the clean repair and returns "café".
Background
A copied sentence contains "’" instead of the right single quote character.
Problem
Restore the punctuation before publishing the text.
How to use
Paste "’" into the Garbled text field and use Auto mode.
text: "’"; chain: "auto"Outcome
Mojibake is garbled text created when bytes encoded in one character set are decoded using another.
Yes. Auto mode can reverse the UTF-8-as-Latin-1 error and recover "café".
Supported chains include UTF-8 with Latin-1, Windows-1252, GBK, Shift-JIS, Big5, or MacRoman, plus GBK misread as UTF-8.
It tries the supported repair chains and selects the candidate with the cleanest printable text.
Enter the garbled text in the text field. The repair chain is optional and defaults to Auto.
The tool recovers the curly right single quote: ’.