Control Characters in ASCII and Unicode(aivosto.com) Tens of odd control characters appear in ASCII charts. The same characters have found their way to Unicode as well. CR, LF, ESC, CAN... what are all these codes for? Should I care about them? This is an in-depth look into control characters in ASCII and its descendants, including Unicode, ANSI and ISO standards.
Mojibake(wikipedia.org) Mojibake (Japanese: 文字化け; IPA: [mod͡ʑibake], 'character transformation') is the garbled or gibberish text that is the result of text being decoded using an unintended character encoding.