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innocentoldguy on Oct 5, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mojibake

As text processing has moved away from encodings like Windows 1252 and Shift-JIS to UTF-8, mojibake has become much less of an issue. It was a frequent mess in the 1990s though.

monkpit on Oct 5, 2022 | [–]

I remember frequently having to manually select the correct encoding while browsing in the 90s and early 00s. I’m glad it’s gone.

lifthrasiir on Oct 5, 2022 | [–]

I still regularly see mojibake from Japanese ZIP files. The worst has indeed passed, but it will remain a lingering problem for decades.

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