Meaning of 文字化 in Japanese

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Definition of 文字化

もじ(moji) · もんじ(monji) 【文字】

(n) letter (of alphabet); character
へー、キーボード見ないで文字打てるんだ。スゴイわねー。
Oh? You can type without looking at the keyboard. That's cool!
(adj-no) literal

か(ka) 【化】

もじばけ(mojibake) 【文字化け】

(n) (comp) corruption (of text, e.g. in email, due to improper encoding); garbling; illegal character; corrupted text; garbled text

For some reason the message text was corrupted, so I restored it before reading.