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.

Difference between BYTE and CHAR in column datatypes

In Oracle, what is the difference between : CREATE TABLE CLIENT ( NAME VARCHAR2(11 BYTE), ID_CLIENT NUMBER ) and CREATE TABLE CLIENT ( …

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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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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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Unicode, UTF, ASCII, ANSI format differences

What is the difference between the Unicode, UTF8, UTF7, UTF16, UTF32, ASCII, and ANSI encodings? In what way are these …

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Writing Unicode text to a text file?

I'm pulling data out of a Google doc, processing it, and writing it to a file (that eventually I will …

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What is the best way to remove accents (normalize) in a Python unicode string?

I have a Unicode string in Python, and I would like to remove all the accents (diacritics). I found on …

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Python - 'ascii' codec can't decode byte

I'm really confused. I tried to encode but the error said can't decode.... >>> "你好".encode("utf8") Traceback (most …

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How to convert wstring into string?

The question is how to convert wstring to string? I have next example : #include <string> #include <iostream&…

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SSIS Convert Between Unicode and Non-Unicode Error

I have an ssis package where I am using an OLEDB source linking to SQL Server 2005 table. All columns except …

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How do I grep for all non-ASCII characters?

I have several very large XML files and I'm trying to find the lines that contain non-ASCII characters. I've tried …

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