#JAPANESE APPLOCALE GIBBERISH SOFTWARE#
#JAPANESE APPLOCALE GIBBERISH WINDOWS#

#JAPANESE APPLOCALE GIBBERISH SOFTWARE#

These characters were not displayed properly in standards-compliant software this especially affected software running under other operating systems (e.g.

#JAPANESE APPLOCALE GIBBERISH WINDOWS#

For example, some software by Microsoft and Eudora for Windows purportedly encoded their output using the ISO-8859-1 encoding while, in reality, used Windows-1252 that contains extra printable characters in the C1 range. Mojibake can also occur between what appears to be the same encodings. Words and even sentences were 'deciphered' with meanings made up to deliver funny messages.

In the mid 1990s, as this problem became common, several websites featured mojibake not as a problem to be tackled but simply for amusement. Heuristics can be applied to guess at the character set, but these are not always successful. For example, the intended word 'ж–‡е—еЊ–гЃ‘', encoded in UTF-8, is incorrectly displayed as 'Г¦вЂ“вЂЎГҐ-ГҐЕ’вЂ“ГЈВЃвЂ' in software that is configured to expect text in the Windows-1252 or ISO-8859-1 encodings, usually labelled Western.ДЄ web browser may not be able to distinguish a page coded in EUC-JP and another in Shift-JIS if the coding scheme is not assigned explicitly using the HTTP headers sent along with the documents, or using the HTML document's meta tags that are used to substitute for missing HTTP headers if the server cannot be configured to send the proper HTTP headers. Japanese language users, with several different encodings historically employed, would encounter this problem relatively often. Messages transferred between different encodings of the same language can also have mojibake problems. Such incorrect display occurs when writing systems or character encodings are mistagged or 'foreign' to the user's computer system: if a computer does not have the software required to process a foreign language's characters, it will attempt to process them in its default language encoding, usually resulting in gibberish. Mojibake is often caused when a character encoding is not correctly tagged in a document, or when a document is moved to a system with a different default encoding.

Japanese applocale gibberish