Top "Unicode" questions

Unicode is a standard for the encoding, representation and handling of text with the intention of supporting all the characters required for written text incorporating all writing systems, technical symbols and punctuation.

Converting Symbols, Accent Letters to English Alphabet

The problem is that, as you know, there are thousands of characters in the Unicode chart and I want to …

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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 …

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Fixing broken UTF-8 encoding

I am in the process of fixing some bad UTF-8 encoding. I am currently using PHP 5 and MySQL. In my …

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How can I output UTF-8 from Perl?

I am trying to write a Perl script using the "utf8" pragma, and I'm getting unexpected results. I'm using Mac …

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Java equivalent to JavaScript's encodeURIComponent that produces identical output?

I've been experimenting with various bits of Java code trying to come up with something that will encode a string …

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What's HTML character code 8203?

What does the character code (HTML) ​? I found it in one of my jQuery scripts and wondered what it …

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Storing and displaying unicode string (हिन्दी) using PHP and MySQL

I have to store hindi text in a MySQL database, fetch it using a PHP script and display it on …

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Python str vs unicode types

Working with Python 2.7, I'm wondering what real advantage there is in using the type unicode instead of str, as both …

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Difference between UTF-8 and UTF-16?

Difference between UTF-8 and UTF-16? Why do we need these? MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-256"); String text = "This is some …

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String length in bytes in JavaScript

In my JavaScript code I need to compose a message to server in this format: <size in bytes>…

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