Fix garbled characters
Text exported from systems and spreadsheets sometimes arrives with broken characters, like "café". This tool undoes that encoding error.
- 1.Paste the text with garbled characters.
- 2.See the fixed text.
- 3.Copy the result.
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Fix text with garbled accents and symbols, like "café" or "don’t", caused by UTF-8 and Latin-1 mix-ups. Free and instant.
- Why do characters get garbled?
- The text was saved in UTF-8 and opened as Latin-1 (or Windows-1252). Each special character turns into two odd ones, like "é" becoming "é".
- What if the error happened twice?
- The tool repeats the fix while it finds signs of the error, so text that was garbled twice gets fixed too.