Kei te pai te kōnae — i pānuitia hē
Ko te mea e tiakina ana e tētahi kōnae taitara he paiaka. Ko te huri i ngā paiaka hei pūāhua e hiahia ana kia mōhiotia ko tēhea te waehere i tuhia ai — ki te hē tēnā ka whiwhi koe i te mojibake. Kāore i ngaro tētahi paiaka i te kōnae; pānuitia anō ki te waehere tika ka hoki mai ngā pūāhua.
Nā tērā i wehe te mahi ki te rua: te mahi ko tēhea te waehere i tīmata ai, me te te tiaki hei waehere e kitea ana e tō pūreretia. Ka whakatau rāua i ngā raruraru rerekē.
Ngā āhua e rima, ngā take e rima
Ehara te mojibake i te mea matapōkere — ko te āhua e whakaatu ana i te take i tupu ai:

He aha te pūāhua whakakapi kāore e taea te whakatika
Ko te pūāhua whakakapi te raina wehe. Ko te tikanga o tētahi `�` i makaina kē ngā paiaka i tētahi taahiraa o mua (te tikanga ko tētahi hōtaka e pānui ana i te kōnae ka tiaki anō), ā, kāore he mea i tuhia mō te mea i makaina. I taua wā kāore he mea hei rorohiko ki muri — kāore e taea e tētahi te whakatika.
Nō reira ka whakahaere rerekē te whārangi whakatika i ngā take e rua. Tukuake i tētahi kōnae, ā, kei te mau ngā paiaka taketake, ka tukua kia whakamātau i ia waehere; mēnā kei te mau kē te kuputuhi i whakapiritia i te pūāhua whakakapi, ka kī mārama rā ia: "kāore e taea te whakatika, tēnā tukuake i te kōnae taketake".
Tērā anō te taha kē: e pānui ana te ihirangi i te pai rawa atu engari e whakaatu tonu ana tō pūreretia i te para hē. Ehara te kōnae i te hapa — i kōwhiria e te pūreretia te waehere hē. Kāore e āwhina te whakatika i te kuputuhi; tiakina tētahi kōnae hei UTF-8 me te BOM rānei GBK, ka hoatu ki a ia.

He aha e whakarite ana i a ia e whakatika ana
Ka whakamātau te taputapu i ia waehere whaitake, kātahi ka kaute i ia hua: te rahi o te waihanga i ngā pūāhua noa, mēnā he aho reta taumaha, he aho tohu, mēnā he pakitara pūāhua pōuri ngā CJK. Ko te hua kaute-pai rawa ka haere ki te tihi o te rārangi.
Ki te kāore he kaute i tino pai ake, kāore he mea i tūtohutia — he pai ake te kī atu ki a koe "e pānui ana tēnei i te pai pēnei i tōna āhua" i te tuku i tētahi mea he rite noa ki te reo. Ko te kuputuhi i pakaru rua (i tiakina hē kotahi, i whakatikaina hē kotahi rānei) ka whiwhi i tētahi porohita tāpiri o te whakatau-muri ki runga i ngā kaitono pai rawa.

Ka whakaoti i te mahi mā te tiaki i te waehere tika
Me tiaki tonu te kuputuhi i whakatikaina hei waehere e mōhiotia ana e tō pūreretia. Ko ngā pūreretia i Windows te tikanga e whakawhirinaki ana ki te BOM hei kite i te waehere, nō reira ko te UTF-8 me te BOM te iti rawa o te raruraru; ko ngā pūreretia tawhito me ētahi pūreretia rohe e hiahia ana ki te GBK. Ka taea e koe te kōwhiri i te UTF-8, UTF-8 (me te BOM), GBK, Big5, Shift_JIS EUC-KR rānei, ā, ka kīia koe kia kōwhiria tētahi atu ki te kore e hāngai tētahi mea (kāore e taea e te GBK te pupuri i te Kōrea).

Ngā taputapu me ngā aratohu e pā ana
Te hōhonutanga huarahi — Me pēhea te whakatika i ngā taitara mojibake; he aha te mea e tiakina ana e tētahi kōnae SRT — He aha kei roto i tētahi kōnae SRT; e pai ana te waehere engari e paru ana te ihirangi (ngā tohu wai, ngā pānuitanga, ngā tohu whakarongo-pōuri) — Te horoi taitara.