Questions tagged [character-encoding]
A character encoding system consists of a code that pairs each character from a given repertoire with something else — such as a bit pattern, sequence of natural numbers, octets, or electrical pulses — in order to facilitate the transmission of data (generally numbers or text) through telecommunication networks or for data storage.
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Chinese language support in Windows, installed language packs but some apps still show gibberish text
I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate and I've installed both the Traditional and Simplified Chinese language packs. A lot of software works with Chinese text now and I'm also able to use Chinese input.
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How can I enforce so Notepad++ uses UTF-8 every time I create a new file?
I want to use the character encoding UTF-8 (without BOM) on my files. I can change the encoding from the "Format" menu, but it is reset every time I create a new file or open a file.
How can I do so ...
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How to convert character encodings on Windows?
I'm trying to work out how to convert a file to UTF-8, but I really can't find much useful info on google other than to use iconv. I downloaded that, but when I ran it via the CLI it told me that I ...
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How to determine if zip is encrypted by AES
I have to determine encryption method of ZIP files I'm receiving.
Mostly I'm interested to know if AES was used or not...
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How to set character encoding when opening a CSV file in Excel?
Is it possible to set the default encoding for Excel (any version, e.g. 2010) when opening files like csv files (like you can in Open Office Calc)?
I When I try to open a csv file encoded in Japanese ...
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Vim encoding issue with danish characters æøå
When trying to input danish characters æøå into vim, I suddenly get "æ ø å " and then the questionmark blocks on reopening. The same goes for files saved in other editors and reopened in vim. I have ...
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Why does gnome-terminal display ���?
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 with GNOME Terminal 2.30.2, but when I ssh into a RedHat server, my terminal does not display correctly.
For example, the help pages for R look like this:
Objects of class �...
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Alt + Number key combination in notebooks
If you do Alt + 64 in a PC you will get "@" and so on for most characters.
I could not find out way yet to use this very helpful resource in notebooks.
Can this be done?
I would like if possible an ...
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Difference in utf-8 conversion for multibyte characters
I have a text file containing some chinese charactes like 打印机驱动程序安装磁��. By default the file is in ANSI code set. IF i save it as utf-8 in Textpad editor it is working fine, the binary values are proper,...
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use gedit to open file with null characters
I know GEdit has a bug which prevents it from opening a file with null (\0) characters in it. This is a huge inconvenience for me because I frequently have to open big log files with only a couple ...
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How does a character is printed from binary?
I know an ASCII character takes 8 bits but how do you print a character on screen with those bits?
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Thunderbird character-encoding problem
In folder properties, if I choose iso-8859-9 or windows-1254, messages with utf-8 headers does not show Turkish characters correct and if I choose utf-8, messages with iso-8859-9 and windows-1254 does ...
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Is cmd.exe of Windows 7 capable of displaying the degree character '°'?
Is cmd.exe of Windows 7 capable of displaying the degree character '°'?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_symbol
http://ascii-table.com/ansi-codes.php
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Changing the PuTTY character set for all saved sessions
PuTTY is was displaying some weird characters due to incorrectly set character set (credit to previous SU question for helping me figure that out)
Now that I know switching the Received data assumed ...
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