Top "Encoding" questions

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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Does "\d" in regex mean a digit?

I found that in 123, \d matches 1 and 3 but not 2. I was wondering if \d matches a digit satisfying what kind …

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What is Unicode, UTF-8, UTF-16?

What's the basis for Unicode and why the need for UTF-8 or UTF-16? I have researched this on Google and …

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Changing default encoding of Python?

I have many "can't encode" and "can't decode" problems with Python when I run my applications from the console. But …

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How can I detect the encoding/codepage of a text file

In our application, we receive text files (.txt, .csv, etc.) from diverse sources. When reading, these files sometimes contain garbage, …

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"’" showing on page instead of " ' "

’ is showing on my page instead of '. I have the Content-Type set to UTF-8 in both my <head&…

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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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NodeJS: How to decode base64 encoded string back to binary?

I was implementing password hashing with salt, so I generated salt as binary, hashed the password, base64 encoded the password …

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Usage of unicode() and encode() functions in Python

I have a problem with encoding of the path variable and inserting it to the SQLite database. I tried to …

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C# Convert string from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) H

I have googled on this topic and I have looked at every answer, but I still don't get it. Basically …

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