Encoding converter — fix mojibake and broken ₹
Paste text where characters have turned into gibberish (₹ instead of ₹) and repair it, plus strip invisible characters. It fixes in your browser (0 uploads, works offline).
How to use it
- Enter or paste your input above.
- The result appears live on your device.
- Copy or Download it.
FAQ
How do I fix mojibake (garbled characters) in text for free?
Paste the garbled text and this page repairs the common Windows-1252 mojibake — turning ₹ back into ₹ and it’s back into it's — in your browser with no upload. It can also strip invisible characters and straighten smart quotes.
Why does ₹ show up as ₹?
That happens when UTF-8 text is mistakenly read as Windows-1252, splitting each multi-byte character into gibberish. The converter reverses that decoding, restoring the original characters.
Is my text uploaded?
No — the repair runs locally and nothing is stored; it works offline.
What else can it clean?
It can strip non-breaking spaces, zero-width characters and BOMs, and straighten curly quotes — the usual debris in text copied from PDFs and web pages.
Limits
Repairs the common Windows-1252 mojibake pattern; deeply corrupted or double-encoded text may not fully recover.
Related
The invisible-character detector locates hidden characters; remove line breaks cleans PDF pastes.
Bookmark this page (Ctrl+D, or ⌘D on Mac) or install the app — it works offline the next time you need it.