Top "Unicode" questions

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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How to remove \xa0 from string in Python?

I am currently using Beautiful Soup to parse an HTML file and calling get_text(), but it seems like I'm …

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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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Creating Unicode character from its number

I want to display a Unicode character in Java. If I do this, it works just fine: String symbol = "\u2202"; …

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Python string prints as [u'String']

This will surely be an easy one but it is really bugging me. I have a script that reads in …

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Import Package Error - Cannot Convert between Unicode and Non Unicode String Data Type

I have made a dtsx package on my computer using SQL Server 2008. It imports data from a semicolon delimited csv …

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How to convert a string with Unicode encoding to a string of letters

I have a string with escaped Unicode characters, \uXXXX, and I want to convert it to regular Unicode letters. For …

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Python Unicode Encode Error

I'm reading and parsing an Amazon XML file and while the XML file shows a ' , when I try to …

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Invisible characters - ASCII

Are there any invisible characters? I have checked Google for invisible characters and ended up with many answers but I'm …

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How can I change a file's encoding with vim?

I'm used to using vim to modify a file's line endings: $ file file file: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators $ …

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