Top "Encoding" questions

How can I transform string to UTF-8 in C#?

I have a string that I receive from a third party app and I would like to display it correctly …

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How to get ASCII value of string in C#

I want to get the ASCII value of characters in a string in C#. If my string has the value "9…

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What is the best collation to use for MySQL with PHP?

I'm wondering if there is a "best" choice for collation in MySQL for a general website where you aren't 100% sure …

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UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode - character maps to <undefined>, print function

I am writing a Python (Python 3.3) program to send some data to a webpage using POST method. Mostly for debugging …

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What is base 64 encoding used for?

I've heard people talking about "base 64 encoding" here and there. What is it used for?

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Get encoding of a file in Windows

This isn't really a programming question, is there a command line or Windows tool (Windows 7) to get the current encoding …

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Detect encoding and make everything UTF-8

I'm reading out lots of texts from various RSS feeds and inserting them into my database. Of course, there are …

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How do I check if a string is unicode or ascii?

What do I have to do in Python to figure out which encoding a string has?

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How do I decode a base64 encoded string?

I am trying to "decode" this following Base64 string: OBFZDTcPCxlCKhdXCQ0kMQhKPh9uIgYIAQxALBtZAwUeOzcdcUEeW0dMO1kbPElWCV1ISFFKZ0kdWFlLAURPZhEFQVseXVtPOUUICVhMAzcfZ14AVEdIVVgfAUIBWVpOUlAeaUVMXFlKIy9rGUN0VF08Oz1…

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How many bytes does one Unicode character take?

I am a bit confused about encodings. As far as I know old ASCII characters took one byte per character. …

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