TIL: Mojibake

I learned a new word today: mojibake ! Some of my old blog posts have random gibberish in them like Ã± or â€™ . I always assumed this was the result of some character encoding mismatch but I didn’t know exactly what was going on. While I was fixing this issue via find/replace technology, I did some reading to learn more. The short version is a mismatch between UTF-8 and Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1)…