Garbled clipboard (GNU Emacs FAQ For MS Windows)

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4.4 How can I fix garbled text yanked from the clipboard? ¶

You can try set-selection-coding-system, but generally such corruption is a thing of the past, as Emacs uses Unicode for the clipboard by default now.