What input can I use?

You can paste text or upload one text/plain, text/csv, application/json, or text/markdown file up to 10 MB.

Which encodings are supported?

The tool supports automatic detection, UTF-8, UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, GB18030/GBK, Windows-1252, and ISO-8859-1.

Can it repair mojibake?

Yes. Automatic Mojibake Repair scores a local reversible repair candidate and returns the best result.

Can I change line endings?

Yes. You can preserve the original style or output LF or CRLF line endings.

Yes. Enable Remove BOM to remove a leading BOM and report whether it was removed.

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Examples

1. Repair UTF-8 mojibake

Content editor

Background

A text snippet contains incorrectly decoded accented characters, including "CafÃ© dÃ©jÃ vu".

Problem

The text is difficult to read and needs a reversible local repair.

How to use

Paste the text, keep Source Encoding set to Automatic Detection, choose Automatic Mojibake Repair, preserve newlines, and enable Remove BOM.

sourceEncoding: auto; repairMode: auto; newlineMode: preserve; removeBom: true

Outcome

The JSON result includes repairedText as "Café déjà vu" with a mojibakeScoreAfter of 0.

2. Normalize BOM and Windows newlines

Data engineer

Background

A UTF-8 text value begins with a BOM and uses CRLF line endings.

Problem

The content must use LF line endings without the leading BOM.

How to use

Paste the text, select UTF-8, choose Normalize BOM and Newlines, set Newline Output to LF, and enable Remove BOM.

sourceEncoding: utf-8; repairMode: normalize; newlineMode: lf; removeBom: true

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