Top "File-format" questions

A file format is a particular way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file.

What is the difference between "JPG" / "JPEG" / "PNG" / "BMP" / "GIF" / "TIFF" Image?

I have seen many types of image extensions but have never understood the real differences between them. Are there any …

image file-format
Write a file in UTF-8 using FileWriter (Java)?

I have the following code however, I want it to write as a UTF-8 file to handle foreign characters. Is …

java file-io unicode utf-8 file-format
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…

character-encoding file-format
Can a CSV file have a comment?

Is there any official way to allow a CSV formatted file to allow comments, either on its own line OR …

csv comments standards file-format
Load Jpg/Gif/Bitmap and convert to Bitmap

I have to load an image from an XML file. There is no information in the XML file about whether …

delphi image-processing bitmap vcl file-format
What is the (file) format of iOS/iPhone apps?

I know that Android apps are packaged as *.apk files, but I have no idea in which way an iOS/…

ios file-format
Tools to help reverse engineer binary file formats

What tools are available to aid in decoding unknown binary data formats? I know Hex Workshop and 010 Editor both support …

binary reverse-engineering file-format binary-data
What is the format of a patch file?

What does the following mean ? diff -rBNu src.orig/java/org/apache/nutch/analysis/NutchAnalysisConstants.java src/java/org/apache/…

patch file-format
Convert a shapefile (.shp) to xml/json

I'm working with a shapefile (.shp, .dbf, etc) and would like to convert it to xml. I'm on a mac, …

xml gis file-format
Why am I getting mime-type of .csv file as "application/octet-stream"?

I'm working on a PHP application that must import an excel file into MySQL. So I need to convert the …

php csv http-headers mime-types file-format