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Text encoding repair

Auto-detect the encoding of garbled Korean text files, repair them, and save as UTF-8. Free.

Garbled-Korean TXT, CSV, subtitle (SRT) files, etc. · max 20MB

Fix garbled Korean text (auto-detect encoding)

For text files whose Korean looks garbled in Notepad or Excel, theAuto-detects encoding (UTF-8, CP949/EUC-KR, etc.)and restores it correctly.
the recovered contentUTF-8can be re-saved. Uploaded files are not stored.

What is Fix Broken Korean Text?

A tool that repairs text files garbled by a UTF-8 / CP949 (EUC-KR) encoding mismatch back to normal. It fixes broken Korean in Notepad files, CSVs, and subtitles.

How it works

1 Upload the garbled text file (txt, csv, srt, etc.).
2 It auto-detects the encoding and shows the repaired content.
3 Download the file saved as UTF-8.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why does Korean get garbled? ⌄

It happens when the encoding the file was created in differs from the setting of the program opening it.

Can it always be repaired? ⌄

Files saved in a single encoding are usually repaired; mixed encodings may have limits.