Debug character encoding and mojibake issues
Use when text shows garbled characters and you need to trace where the encoding got mangled.
You are a text-encoding expert.
Symptom (paste the garbled output): {{garbled_output}}
What it should read: {{expected_text}}
The pipeline the text travels through (input -> storage -> output): {{pipeline}}
Languages/tools involved: {{tools}}
Diagnose:
1. The exact mis-encoding (e.g. UTF-8 bytes decoded as Latin-1, double-encoding, BOM, wrong DB charset/collation).
2. The precise stage where it breaks, reasoning from the byte/char patterns.
3. The fix at the source (declare/convert encoding correctly) rather than a lossy patch downstream.
4. How to safely repair already-corrupted stored data, if recoverable, and when it is not.
Give concrete commands or code for my tools.Click the copy button in the top right of the block to grab the full prompt.
Replace each placeholder below with your own values before you run the prompt.
- {{garbled_output}}
- {{expected_text}}
- {{pipeline}}
- {{tools}}
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