What are garbled characters?
Mojibake (Japanese: 文字化け; IPA: [mod͡ʑibake]) is the garbled text that is the result of text being decoded using an unintended character encoding. The result is a systematic replacement of symbols with completely unrelated ones, often from a different writing system.
What are the weird symbols called?
A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph.
What are the HTML special characters?
Special Characters in HTML
| Symbol | Description | Entity Name |
|---|---|---|
| “ | quotation mark | “ |
| ‘ | apostrophe | ‘ |
| & | ampersand | & |
| < | less-than | < |
What does â € œ mean?
This answer is not useful. Show activity on this post. “ is “Mojibake” for “ . You could try to avoid the non-ascii quotes, but that would only delay getting back into trouble.
What does this mean â €?
If your database contains ’ , then it’s your database that’s messed up. Most probably the tables aren’t configured to use UTF-8 . Instead, they use the database’s default encoding, which varies depending on the configuration. If this is your issue, then usually just altering the table to use UTF-8 is sufficient.
What is the unreadable text?
Illegible refers to texts that can’t be read due to bad handwriting, physical deterioration, or any other issue that makes the words difficult to decipher.
Which are not reserved symbols in HTML?
The ASCII quotation mark ” and the ASCII apostrophe ‘ are not reserved, except in the very specific sense that a quoted attribute value must not literally contain the character used as quote, i.e. in “foo” the string foo must not contain ” as such and in ‘foo’ the string foo must not contain ‘ as such.
