Unbake Mojibaked Text

The Unbake Mojibake Tool is built to fix broken Unicode text you know, when something like “café” was supposed to say “café.” It happens all the time with bad encodings or when text gets misinterpreted by different systems. Just paste in the mess, and this tool gives you clean, human-readable text on the spot. You can even tweak how it formats things and export the fixed version in a click.

Paste your input above or import a file below.
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Supported file types: .txt, .csv, .log, .json, .xml, .md
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Options
Trim lines
Normalize Unicode (NFC)
Preserve line breaks

How to Use:

  1. Paste the garbled text into the input box on the left.
  2. Or click Choose File to import a .txt, .csv, or similar file.
  3. The output updates live, fixing encoding errors as you type.
  4. Use the Options box to:
    • Trim whitespace
    • Normalize the Unicode formatting
    • Preserve or flatten line breaks
  5. Hit Copy Output or Export to File once it looks right.
  6. Want to start fresh? Just click Clear All.

What Unbake Mojibake Tool can do:

Unbake Mojibake Tool helps untangle text that’s been wrecked by mismatched encoding especially common with UTF-8 and legacy systems. It safely re-encodes and decodes text using the browser, without ever sending your content anywhere. You’ve also got control over the formatting: trim lines, clean up extra spacing, or normalize characters like accented letters and special symbols. And because it works in real time, you can keep adjusting until it looks exactly how it should.

Example:

Input:

Français, café, résumé

Output:

Français, café, résumé

Common Use Cases:

You’ll find this tool useful if you’re copying data from old systems, recovering garbled files, fixing character messes in CSV exports, or even cleaning up emails. It’s especially helpful for developers, translators, content editors, and anyone who deals with text pulled from mixed environments. Just paste, fix, and move on.

Useful Tools & Suggestions:

When you’re fixing mojibake, it’s usually smart to also Normalize Unicode Text to catch any lingering oddities. And if you’re still seeing strange characters, try Remove Combining Characters to strip out the invisible stuff that messes with display.

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