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My text file is riddled with question marks. How can I make it readable?
When I open one of my text files in Visual Studio Code,
the text contains a lot of question marks where I had expected to see
Swedish letters, such as å, ä, ö :
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Down to the right (...
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Stop VS Code from auto guessing encoding
I use VS Code to make a German site.
I use a German special character in a style.css file.
After restarting VS Code and changing the file encoding from UTF-8 to
Windows-1252, I get what is shown in ...
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What is the difference between Windows-1252 and ANSI encoding?
I'm trying to convert UTF-8 to ANSI encoding through a tool.
But it shows Western European (Windows)-1252 instead of ANSI.
Are they both the same thing? Should I go ahead with this?
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ANSI to UTF-8 in Notepad++
I have a text encoded in ANSI:
When I tried to convert it into UTF-8 (using the Notepad++ menu Encoding > UTF-8), I get some weird characters:
I thought that UTF-8 was a superset of ANSI and that I ...
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ANSI file with charSet with latin character
I´m with a doubt about encoding/charset.
I make a test. Typing the string "TEST Á" without the quotes in Notepad++ with encode in ANSI.
"The ANSI charsets are all the same for ASCII characters such ...
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