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by CharlesW 16 days ago
Not to bikeshed, but isn't the word "mojibake" synonymous with "when character encoding breaks"?
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Mojibake is a Japanese term, and yes, it's used there when a page displays a lot of gibberish text. I chose it for fun.
I wouldn’t call it synonymous as much as I’d call it its literal meaning.

https://jisho.org/word/%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E5%8C%96%E3%81%91