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Text Mojibake Repair
x402
Text Mojibake Repair is a paid API for AI agents from www.tradepilotusa.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-01).
Repairs UTF-8-to-Latin-1 mojibake corruption in text by pattern-matching known garbled character sequences back to their intended Unicode characters
Price / call$0.01
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Repair text corrupted by the classic UTF-8-bytes-read-as-Latin-1 mistake (curly quotes, em dashes, common emoji, stray BOM appearing as garbled multi-character sequences). Pattern-matches known corruption sequences; this is a heuristic repair, not full charset detection, and leaves correctly-encoded text unchanged.
Output
Returns the input text with known UTF-8-read-as-Latin-1 corruption sequences replaced by their correct Unicode characters. Correctly-encoded text is returned unchanged. The repair is heuristic and pattern-based, not a full charset detection solution.
Example use cases
Fixing garbled product reviews
“Our product review database has a ton of entries where curly quotes appear as “ and ’ and em dashes show up as —
Cleaning mojibake in imported CRM notes
“We imported customer notes from an old system and all the special characters are broken — things like ‘ instead of apostrophes and … instead of ellipses. Can you run this note through the mojibake repair to clean it up?”
Repairing encoded email content
“This email body we received has obviously corrupted encoding — the em dashes and smart quotes are all garbled multi-character sequences. Fix the encoding so it reads correctly.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://www.tradepilotusa.com/api/agent-commerce/v1/services/text_mojibake_repair/execute?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you have text that was clearly corrupted by the classic UTF-8-bytes-interpreted-as-Latin-1 mistake, showing symptoms like “ for curly quotes, â€
Side effects
- Text that is not mojibake-corrupted is returned unchanged — no false positives but no detection confirmation either
- Uncommon or non-standard corruption patterns not in the heuristic list will not be repaired
- Text exceeding 48,000 characters will be rejected with a validation error
- Non-UTF-8/Latin-1 encoding errors (e.g. Windows-1252 specific sequences) may not be fully addressed
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance will prevent the call from completing
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| text | string |
Tags
x402
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