Mojibake Fixer — Repair Garbled Text Encoding
Paste garbled text and the most likely original is shown first.
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How to use
- Paste the garbled text exactly as you see it — for example é, ’, 안녕 or 縺薙ｓ.
- A label such as [Windows-1252 → UTF-8] means UTF-8 text was misread as Windows-1252. Candidates higher in the list are more likely to be right.
- Once you find the right one, turn on “Show only the best guess” to copy clean text.
- You can also paste hex bytes (C3 A9, %C3%A9 or \xC3\xA9) to see how they decode in each encoding.
FAQ
Why does text turn into é and ’?
Text is stored as bytes. If those bytes are read with a different encoding than the one used to save them — say UTF-8 read as Windows-1252 — each character turns into odd symbols. Reading the same bytes with the right encoding brings the text back.
Can it fix question marks or � symbols?
No. Once a character has become ? or �, its original bytes are gone. The rest of the text can still be repaired, and the lost spots stay as �.
What if a whole file is garbled?
Reopen the file in your editor with a different encoding — most editors have a “Reopen with encoding” option. Use this tool for text that was already copied in its garbled form.
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