: Imagine a friend sends you a message written in Morse code, but you try to read it as if it were Braille. The "dots and dashes" are all there, but the results make no sense.
: Modern standards like UTF-8 have largely solved this by creating a universal "map" for all world languages, though legacy systems or database errors can still trigger these visual artifacts today. Russian translation - Unknown Worlds Forums : Imagine a friend sends you a message
Mojibake (Japanese for "character transformation") occurs when a computer program incorrectly assumes how a piece of text was encoded. : Imagine a friend sends you a message