Top "Character-encoding" questions

Character encoding refers to the way characters are represented as a series of bytes.

Batch convert latin-1 files to utf-8 using iconv

I'm having this one PHP project on my OSX which is in latin1 -encoding. Now I need to convert files …

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Why is this LSEP symbol showing up on Chrome and not Firefox or Edge?

So this web page is rendering with these symbols and they are found throughout this website/application but on no …

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UTF8 to/from wide char conversion in STL

Is it possible to convert UTF8 string in a std::string to std::wstring and vice versa in a platform …

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What are all of the allowable characters for people's names?

There are the standard A-Z, a-z characters, but also there are hyphens, em dashes, quotes, etc. Plus, there are all …

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ASCII vs Unicode + UTF-8

Was reading Joel Spolsky's 'The Absolute Minimum' about character encoding. It is my understanding that ASCII is a Code-point + Encoding …

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Why is IE failing to show UTF-8 encoded text?

I have a some Chinese characters that I'm trying to display on a Kentico-powered website. This text is copy/pasted …

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Best way to write String to file using java nio

I need to write(append) huge string to flat file using java nio. The encoding is ISO-8859-1. Currently we …

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utf 8 - PHP and MySQLi UTF8

my table char set is utf8 and it's collation is utf8.now i have this code: $mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "…

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What's the ASCII character code for '—'?

I am working on decoding text. I am trying to find the character code for the — character, not to be …

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Convert latin1 characters on a UTF8 table into UTF8

Only today I realized that I was missing this in my PHP scripts: mysql_set_charset('utf8'); All my …

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