Observed arrival · 2026-09-29

Mojibake Rescue: a browser-based text repair tool

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A free tool for comparing encoding-based repair candidates for garbled Japanese, English, and source-code text, either pasted or uploaded as a file.

Landing page captured for the 2026-09-29 issue.

For: People recovering garbled text or code
Worth noticing: It cautions that replaced characters may be unrecoverable and recommends trying the original file if copied text does not repair.

Field notes

The interface lets users select an original encoding or ask for automatic candidates, with options spanning UTF-8, Shift_JIS/CP932, EUC-JP, Windows-1252, ISO-2022-JP, and UTF-16. It accepts text files up to 2 MB, including code files, but explicitly does not execute or validate code. The page advises checking the result and keeping the original file; it says replacement characters can indicate information that is no longer recoverable.

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