Top "Character-encoding" questions

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

How to Find the Default Charset/Encoding in Java?

The obvious answer is to use Charset.defaultCharset() but we recently found out that this might not be the right …

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Windows-1252 to UTF-8 encoding

I've copied certain files from a Windows machine to a Linux machine. So all the Windows encoded (windows-1252) files need …

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How do I convert between ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 in Java?

Does anyone know how to convert a string from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 and back in Java? I'm getting a …

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ERROR 1115 (42000): Unknown character set: 'utf8mb4'

I have a MySQL dump, which I tried to restore with: mysql -u"username" -p"password" --host="127.0.0.1" mysql_db < …

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How do you echo a 4-digit Unicode character in Bash?

I'd like to add the Unicode skull and crossbones to my shell prompt (specifically the 'SKULL AND CROSSBONES' (U+2620)), but …

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Reading a UTF8 CSV file with Python

I am trying to read a CSV file with accented characters with Python (only French and/or Spanish characters). Based …

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Converting byte array to String (Java)

I'm writing a web application in Google app Engine. It allows people to basically edit html code that gets stored …

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How to support UTF-8 encoding in Eclipse

How can I add UTF-8 support in eclipse? I want to add for example Russian language but eclipse won't support …

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How do I remove  from the beginning of a file?

I have a CSS file that looks fine when I open it using gedit, but when it's read by PHP (…

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