Top "Character-encoding" questions

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

Python script to convert from UTF-8 to ASCII

I'm trying to write a script in python to convert utf-8 files into ASCII files: #!/usr/bin/env python # *-* …

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How to have multiple colors in a Windows batch file?

I was wondering if its possible to have different colored text on the same line in a Windows batch file, …

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UTF-8 encoded html pages show � (questions marks) instead of characters

I have the standard XAMPP installation on win7 (x64). Having had my share of encoding troubles in a past project …

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How to set the "Content-Type ... charset" in the request header using a HTML link

I have a simple HTML-page with a UTF-8 encoded link. <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" …

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java.sql.SQLException: Incorrect string value: '\xF0\x9F\x91\xBD\xF0\x9F...'

I have the following string value: "walmart obama 👽💔" I am using MySQL and Java. I am getting the following exception: `…

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UTF-8 output from PowerShell

I'm trying to use Process.Start with redirected I/O to call PowerShell.exe with a string, and to get …

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SQL Server - Convert varchar to another collation (code page) to fix character encoding

I'm querying a SQL Server database that uses the SQL_Latin1_General_CP850_BIN2 collation. One of the table rows …

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How can I find non-ASCII characters in MySQL?

I'm working with a MySQL database that has some data imported from Excel. The data contains non-ASCII characters (em dashes, …

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How to detect the character encoding of a text file?

I try to detect which character encoding is used in my file. I try with this code to get the …

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What is the proper way to URL encode Unicode characters?

I know of the non-standard %uxxxx scheme but that doesn't seem like a wise choice since the scheme has been …

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