Automatic candidates
Tries common UTF-8/Windows-1252 and Latin-1 reversal patterns, including multiple passes.
Private Unicode repair
Mojibake & Encoding Repair Tool
Paste garbled text such as Français or “quotesâ€. The tool generates several repair passes, scores the candidates and keeps everything in your browser.
How it works
Quality score
Ranks results by replacement characters, suspicious byte sequences and readable Unicode.
Local only
Your text is processed entirely in the browser and is not uploaded.
FAQ
What is mojibake?
Mojibake is garbled text caused when bytes are decoded with the wrong character encoding.
Can every broken string be restored?
No. If bytes were discarded or replaced, recovery may be impossible. Compare the candidates before copying.