Mojibake

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mojibake: n., /moŽjee·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/.