If you are seeing this across multiple apps on Windows, it might be because your "Language for non-Unicode programs" is set incorrectly. You can find this in Control Panel > Region > Administrative . Why This Happens This usually occurs because:
Encoding settings for garbled text - Google Merchant Center Help If you are seeing this across multiple apps
Since modern Chrome doesn't have a manual encoding menu, you can try an extension like the Charset tool to force the page to render in UTF-8. If you have this text in a file
If you have this text in a file or email and need to read the original message, here are the most effective ways to "un-garble" it: Change Browser/App Encoding:
If this was an email, you can often fix it by going to Actions > Other Actions > Encoding and selecting Unicode (UTF-8) .
Tools like the Universal Online Cyrillic Decoder or 2cyr.com are designed specifically for this. You can paste the "gibberish" there, and it will attempt to cycle through different encodings to find the original readable text. Change Browser/App Encoding: