Top "Character-encoding" questions

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

WebClient.DownloadString() returns string with peculiar characters

I have an issue with some content that we are downloading from the web for a screen scraping tool that …

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What characters do not directly map from Cp1252 to UTF-8?

I've read in several stackoverflow answers that some characters do not directly map (or are even "unmappable") when converting from …

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Python, Windows, Ansi - encoding, again

Hello there, even if i really tried... im stuck and somewhat desperate when it comes to Python, Windows, Ansi and …

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Converting special charactes such as ü and à back to their original, latin alphbet counterparts in C#

I have been given an export from a MySQL database that seems to have had it's encoding muddled somewhat over …

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Read utf-8 text file in vbscript

I have a text file saved as UTF-8 and when I try to read the file it gives me weird …

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How to convert 'u00e9' into a utf8 char, in mysql or php?

Im doing some data cleansing on some messy data which is being imported into mysql. The data contains 'pseudo' unicode …

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How to read a file in Java with specific character encoding?

I am trying to read a file in as either UTF-8 or Windows-1252 depending on the output of this method: …

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Convert accented characters to their plain ascii equivalents

I have to convert french characters into english on my php. I've used the following code: iconv("utf-8", "ascii//TRANSLIT", $…

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What is the maximum number of bytes for a UTF-8 encoded character?

What is the maximum number of bytes for a single UTF-8 encoded character? I'll be encrypting the bytes of a …

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How can a text file be converted from ANSI to UTF-8 with Delphi 7?

I written a program with Delphi 7 which searches *.srt files on a hard drive. This program lists the path and …

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