Glossary · Phase 7 · Software engineering
Mojibake
Garbled text like Café that appears when bytes are decoded with the wrong encoding.
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Decode as early as possible, work with str everywhere inside, encode as late as possible. Each boundary names its encoding.
Learn it properly
Text, bytes and encodings · str and bytes, UTF-8, decoding errors, normalization and base64. About 35 minutes.
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