mojibake

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
mojibake
 n., /mo'jee.ba.ke/

   Japanese for "ghost characters", the garbage that comes out when one
   tries to display international character sets through software not
   configured for them. There is a page on the topic at
   http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/mojibake/.
    

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