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Tagged with character-encoding encoding
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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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How do I change the character encoding for a webpage in Chrome?
Google Chrome, like almost every web browser in recent memory, used to have an option to change the character encoding for the webpage being viewed by going to Menu › Tools › Encoding (or some similar ...
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Internet Explorer 11 not displaying UTF-8 encoded pages correctly
Some pages in IE 11, that seem to be UTF-8, are not displaying correctly. The same page displays correctly in Mozilla Firefox. I first noticed this in Amazon.com on the Orders page (pretty much any of ...
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incorrect encoding of rsyslog output
I'm running a rsyslog service in a docker container.
Its configuration(rsyslog.conf) looks like below,
module(load="imuxsock") # local system logging support (e.g. via
logger command)
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Determine and change filename encoding on Windows
I have files on a Windows server that have certain accented characters in the name. On Windows Explorer files are displayed normally but running 'dir' at the command prompt with default settings ...
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Notepad++ proper encoding settings
Notepad++ can't display characters like ⊰ http://graphemica.com/%E2%8A%B0 . What is the best settings to solve this problem?
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remove <200b> character from text file
I have a huge text file containing this string/character <200b> that I want to delete. I tried with sed but it didn't work.
sed 's/<200b>//g' file
The character never shows when I open the ...
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Accented character issue
I have a bunch of websites encoded in UTF-8. They contain accents and those weird n's with the squiggles over them and all kinds of fun stuff.
When I try and open them in any text editor, even ...
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Improper Encoding in Chrome
I started to get this weird issue with chrome (latest) where specific characters would be displayed as other characters.
Here is one example
so instead of < and > it displays W (with the ...
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Determine The Encoding of a specific character in Word 2010
I'm having a problem with a generated document (coming from crystal reports engine). Initially hyphens are visible but if the text is copied and pasted with "keep text only" option or "remove ...
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How can I tell what the character encoding of a string of text is?
Troubleshooting an irritating password issue. There's an application we are using that requires a login; I type in the password, it tells me it's wrong.
If I open a password manager and copy and ...
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File names garbled in rar archive, possibly double utf8 encoded? Can't figure out how to reverse
I'm trying to restore the uploads folder of a wordpress installation. The folder went through some combination of ftp or sftp transfer and got compressed by rar. (I don't know the exact process, it ...
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Which default encoding for Vim: utf8 or latin1?
I'm writing text in European languages
as French, German, Italian.
All characters are compatible with latin1 encoding.
Thats why I decided to set the default encoding in vim to latin1.
Once in ...
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How is web form content encoded in Safari's cache?
A friend of mine just accidentally navigated off a web page where she entered a rather lengthy text into a web form. When navigating back to the page, the text was lost.
(Spoiler: The page had an ...
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WLMail displays messages correctly on screen, but prints  where there is =C2=A0 for some messages
There are many questions online related to this. And I understand that =C2=A0 stands for non-breaking space when it appears within a mime part with type: Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
My ...
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