noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb
mojibake; text corruption; garbled characters
Refers to the garbled, unreadable text that appears when character encoding is mismatched, especially in computing contexts. Commonly used as a noun or with する to describe the occurrence of such corruption.
海外のサイトを開いたら、文字化けして読めなかった。
When I opened an overseas website, the text was garbled and I couldn't read it.
メールが文字化けする原因は、文字コードの違いです。
The cause of email text corruption is differences in character encoding.