Top "Character-encoding" questions

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

How to specify the character set in the HTTP Content-Type response header?

I had my site tested with the Page Speed app from Google and one of the suggestions was to specify …

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Why does Java's String.getBytes() uses "ISO-8859-1"

from java.lang.StringCoding : String csn = (charsetName == null) ? "ISO-8859-1" : charsetName; This is what is used from Java.lang.getBytes() , …

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Converting UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 in Java

I am reading an XML document (UTF-8) and ultimately displaying the content on a Web page using ISO-8859-1. As …

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UTF-8 Encoding ; Only some Japanese characters are not getting converted

I am getting the parameter value as parameter from the Jersey Web Service, which is in Japaneses characters. Here, 'japaneseString' …

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Get a list of all the encodings Python can encode to

I am writing a script that will try encoding bytes into many different encodings in Python 2.6. Is there some way …

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C programming: How to program for Unicode?

What prerequisites are needed to do strict Unicode programming? Does this imply that my code should not use char types …

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$_POST will convert from utf-8 to ä ö ü etc

I am new here, so I apologize if I am doing anything wrong. I have a form which submits user …

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UTF-8 encode URLs

Info: I've a program which generates XML sitemaps for Google Webmaster Tools (among other things). GWTs is giving me errors …

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What's the difference between encoding and charset?

I am confused about the text encoding and charset. For many reasons, I have to learn non-Unicode, non-UTF8 stuff in …

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Get/set file encoding with javascript's FileReader

I am struggling with the following problem. Using javascript I would like to change the character set of a file …

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