Top "Character-encoding" questions

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

Write to UTF-8 file in Python

I'm really confused with the codecs.open function. When I do: file = codecs.open("temp", "w", "utf-8") file.write(codecs.…

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jQuery AJAX Character Encoding

I'm currently coding a French website. There's a schedule page, where a link on the side can be used to …

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Java : How to determine the correct charset encoding of a stream

With reference to the following thread: Java App : Unable to read iso-8859-1 encoded file correctly What is the best …

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Unicode, UTF, ASCII, ANSI format differences

What is the difference between the Unicode, UTF8, UTF7, UTF16, UTF32, ASCII, and ANSI encodings? In what way are these …

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Writing Unicode text to a text file?

I'm pulling data out of a Google doc, processing it, and writing it to a file (that eventually I will …

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PHP: Convert any string to UTF-8 without knowing the original character set, or at least try

I have an application that deals with clients from all over the world, and, naturally, I want everything going into …

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How to convert these strange characters? (ë, Ã, ì, ù, Ã)

My page often shows things like ë, Ã, ì, ù, à in place of normal characters. I use utf8 for header page and MySQL encode. …

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What is the difference between UTF-8 and Unicode?

I have heard conflicting opinions from people - according to the Wikipedia UTF-8 page. They are the same thing, aren't …

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How to get a Char from an ASCII Character Code in c#

Im trying to parse a file in c# that has field (string) arrays separated by ascii character codes 0, 1 and 2 (in …

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Who sets response content-type in Spring MVC (@ResponseBody)

I'm having in my Annotation driven Spring MVC Java web application runned on jetty web server (currently in maven jetty …

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