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Tagged with character-encoding encoding
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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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What is this '°͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌' strange character?
I saw this °͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌ strange character online. I also noted that:
It needs 26 backspaces to delete but behaves like one character when selecting.
It is drawn vertically covering ...
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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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Determining the encoding of a file on Mac OS X?
How can I determine the character encoding of plain text files (such as HTML) on Mac OS X?
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White Question Mark in Black Diamond
We are all familiar with the white question mark inside of a black diamond (�) when there is an encoding issue. Does this 'character' have an offical name? Or is it only referred to as the 'white ...
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Encoding # in FTP user/password within URL
I am trying to access a password-protected ftp site. I have user "foo" pass "pass#1"
When I enter them directly, it works.
I am now trying to craft a single URL that contains the user/pass within (e....
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MS Office 2010 Word change character encoding
I have a document that is not written in English but in other European language and when I open it in MS Word 2010 there are several characters displayed not properly.
How can I change the encoding of ...
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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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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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7zip filename encoding problems
I have problems extracting files from 7zip archive with non-ascii symbols in filenames.
I have identical versions of 7z on two computers, which differ only by the system locale. If I compress on one ...
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Can I tinker with the encoding when using pdftotext to convert PDF to text?
Sometimes when I do pdftotext it results in perfect text. I assume this is because the actual unicode text data is embedded directly in the PDF itself, and simply read out.
But other times (around ...
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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 to identify a file encoding?
I'm trying to figure out the encoding of a text file. I did try a lot of the common ones (with Notepad++), but I've failed so far.
A few hints: The file was originally an Eudora mbx file, with mostly ...
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Why does this PDF appear to encode parentheses correctly but doesn't when using pdftotext or copying and pasting?
Here are links to some journal articles:
https://doi.org/10.1149/1.2183927
https://doi.org/10.1149/1.2988135
https://doi.org/10.1149/1.3021012
https://doi.org/10.1149/1.2159298
They all encode ...
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Firefox Garbled Text
In FF 3.5.7 on Vista I am getting garbled text like below on some web pages.
The obvious answer is to go to View > Character Encodings > then select UTF-8.
However, it turns out I am already using ...
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