Mojibake is a word to describe unintelligible gibberish displayed on a screen or printed on a paper when a software fails to handle encodings or fonts in the data stream. Mojibake is spelled in Japanese as "文字化け" which literally means "ghost characters" or "disguised characters". Here, a set of ideograms "文字" means "character(s)" and an ideogram "化" means "change(d)", "transform(ed)", "haunt(ed)"