Top "Character-encoding" questions

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

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I'm writing a php program that pulls from a database source. Some of the varchars have quotes that are displaying …

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Changing PowerShell's default output encoding to UTF-8

By default, when you redirect the output of a command to a file or pipe it into something else in …

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All inclusive Charset to avoid "java.nio.charset.MalformedInputException: Input length = 1"?

I'm creating a simple wordcount program in Java that reads through a directory's text-based files. However, I keep on getting …

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Is ASCII code 7-bit or 8-bit?

My teacher told me ASCII is 8-bit character coding scheme. But it is defined only for 0-127 codes which means …

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How do you properly use WideCharToMultiByte

I've read the documentation on WideCharToMultiByte, but I'm stuck on this parameter: lpMultiByteStr [out] Pointer to a buffer that receives …

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What is a vertical tab?

What was the original historical use of the vertical tab character (\v in the C language, ASCII 11)? Did it ever …

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Is " " a replacement of " "?

In my ASP.NET application, I was trying to add few white spaces between two text boxes by typing space …

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Text file with 0D 0D 0A line breaks

A customer is sending me a .csv file where the line breaks are made up of the sequence 0xD 0xD 0…

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JsonParseException : Illegal unquoted character ((CTRL-CHAR, code 10)

I'm trying to use org.apache.httpcomponents to consume a Rest API, which will post JSON format data to API. …

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Why specify @charset "UTF-8"; in your CSS file?

I've been seeing this instruction as the very first line of numerous CSS files that have been turned over to …

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