mojibake UK /ˌməʊd͡ʒiˈbɑːki/US /ˌmoʊd͡ʒiˈbɑki/ noun1 •Corrupt characters or letters, especially resulting from being displayed or transferred through an inappropriate character set or encoding.Alas, you'll even see “text” files where some lines have one encoding but other lines have different encodings. You are guaranteed to see mojibake. — 2012