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How to send an e‑mail to an address with Latin9/iso‑8859‑15 characters inside the username part of the address?
As part of finding a job, I need to send an e‑mail to an address which contains latin letters with accents inside the username.
I know this is not standard, but they did it and there’s less than 1000 ...
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How do you create custom zalgo text?
I know what zalgo text is and that there are a few websites that can make it for you. But I'm looking for how I can make it however I want." HͥAͣQͫ" is an example, how can I make it so I can choose ...
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Which type of character encoding consumes the most memory?
I will store a long (45132 character) string in a Postrgres database whilst preserving every character (including really rare ones).
Postgres can store strings up to 1GB (see here).
In terms of the ...
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What text encoding is used in "Zip archive data, at least v?[0x314] to extract"?
I tried multiple search terms on the usual suspect search engines as well as on stack overflow and superuser, but can't find anything on this. Normally a Zip archive magic pattern is "at least v1.0" ...
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Exporting from Excel to CSV replaces Japanese characters with ??? even though Windows, Office locale is Japan/Japanese
I am exporting an excel file (Excel 2016) containing Japanese characters into CSV. (Note : I am not exporting to CSV UTF-8 provided). In the process, all Japanese characters are replaced with '?'
My ...
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Interpret text file with some hex codes?
I have a file with contents looking like PK\u0003\u0004\u0014\u0000\u0006\u0000\b\u0000\u0000\u0000!\u0000À¸<91><91>¢\u0001.
However, I have a different version of the same file looking ...
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Execute sh file with Russian or Chines Chars - Saved as UTF-8 or Unicode
I have a file which has some russian chars in. Below is the content of by sh file.
#!/bin/sh
sed -i "s/\bVAR1\b/Привет, как ты/g" file1.txt
When i save this file i had to save this as UTF-8 or ...
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¢tRÂà³Ab.Ÿân TXT files: how to switch from weird characters back to normal?
So, I have on a flash drive a txt file generated in Cyrillic (my own work, own pen drive), a few years old. Now I needed to open it, only to see this kind of mess:
.
I wonder why is this happening and ...
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What is causing these two apparently identical files to have different hashes?
I am unable to figure out why the following two files are yielding different hashes (SHA1, CRC32, SHA384, whatever):
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/jsonify-error.js
https://...
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What encoding is needed to read this HTML file containing Spanish characters?
I downloaded this HTML file from archive.org, which is a digitilised book, written in Spanish. As such, it has plenty of accents and other unique symbols (e.g. ñ).
Now, when I open the html file in a ...
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Symbols are lost after conversion from UTF-8 to ISO8859-1 and back to UTF-8
I have a file with properties in French.
I would like to convert it to ISO8859-1.
But after conversion, some symbols are lost.
What is wrong?
> cat fr.properties
VAR2="élément n’a"
> cat fr....
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How to fix encoding - curly apostrophe appears as ‰Ûª
I have a text-file in which all the ASCII characters appear correctly but some others do not. In particular there is this word:
don‰Ûªt
In hex the bytes are 64 6f 6e 89 db aa 74. Obviously, it is ...
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Binary encoding formats
echo random text > text_file
Saves text_file in text format with ASCII encoding. To check the encoding, I do
chardetect text_file
which tells me that the file is ASCII encoded.
Now I have a jpg ...
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Opening a 7z file on mac shows strange encodings
I am opening this file:
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/file.xhtml?fileId=2901965&version=1.0
On TextEdit. When I do, the file looks like:
7zºØ'· t(ù‚]%N
ò„,¢‡ò] ¬CRJ∫√ıìaIÄÅ≤íhYTÔ1/ıG3À=ôN’(...
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How can I make `file -i` command return ISO-8859-9?
Let's say I have a text file with content
şşş
and in vi/vim I have set fileencoding as :set fileencoding=ISO-8859-9.
Later when I check the encoding with
file -i <myFile>
it gives text/...
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