Changing your system locale to or Unicode to see if the characters "snap" back into their original shape.
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: The computer forced those bytes to fit into its own limited alphabet. For example, a single complex Chinese character might be broken into three pieces, appearing as "еЃ·". : The original name was likely written in
: When the file was moved to a different server or downloaded by a computer using an older Western encoding (like Windows-1252), the computer didn't recognize the special characters. Instead of seeing a word like "Nature," it saw a series of raw bytes.
: The original name was likely written in a non-Latin script (such as Chinese, Thai, or Cyrillic). In its original home, it was saved using a specific encoding (like UTF-8).