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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How do I change character encoding of a text file in OpenOffice.org writer?
How do I change character encoding of a plain text file in OOO Writer?
I have a text file in Windows-1251 and I'd like to change it to UTF-8.
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Vim under Windows has a problem with some unicode characters
i am using vim latest version (as my main text editor), however, the encoding for keyboard language, other than english, doesn't work.
in every other editor encoding is fine (notepad, ultraedit, ...
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ASCII Code for the TAB Character? (Want to be able to input tabs into a web page textbox)
As I'm sure that pretty much everyone on here is aware the "Tab" key when used on a webpage simply jumps to the next element on the page; whether is be a checkbox, radio selector, button, another ...
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What do I need to do to rsync on Windows to make it keep special characters in filenames on Linux?
We're in the process of implementing an offsite backup of all our servers to a remote Linux server. We're using rsync over SSH. What I've found is that characters such as ñ, ö, ô and ã are replaced ...
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Loading a chinese encoding file in vim, conversion errors
I can view http://hosting2.phor.net/~bolomi/ and save this to a file. In Chrome, I can view source and see the title of the page is 波羅蜜. If I open the saved file in vim to edit, I see question marks ...
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How to change character set for ssh on Mac OS X?
I'm trying to connect to a server via SSH on Mac OS X however the username contains a pound sign "£" and and I am having some trouble using connecting. I can connect using other users but not if it ...
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What exactly happens when you change the character encoding of a webpage?
I loaded www.google.hk
and then changed the character encoding to Greek
and got this
What exactly did the browser do when I changed the character encoding?
It looks like translation but I think it ...
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How to make Quick Look preview text files in UTF-8 by default?
When I use Quick Look in the Finder on a text file, it'll inevitably render garbled because it treats it as MacRoman.
Can I do something to make it always use UTF-8, or, even better, be ever so ...
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How is character encoding inside Sakura done?
In the Sakura editor, you can have a .txt file with UTF-8 encoding, which contains 2 characters that are not available in EUC charset.
When I saved a .txt from UTF-8 to EUC in the editor, it all ...
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How can I translate this email attachment to read it in English?
I know nothing about coding but received an email attachment as .txt opened and all I can see are a bunch of characters like
%S^$^%$$////
is there a way to translate it?
Can you direct me to a ...
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shell character encoding seems to have been altered
I'm having a problem with my shell on an Ubuntu virtual machine that I ssh in to. It was working fine until I output the contents of a JPEG file directly, since then the character encoding seems to ...
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How to stop smiley in Thunderbird showing up as a J?
In Thunderbird 3, when I receive a message with a smiley using the "Original HTML" or "Simplified HTML" viewing option, it appears like this:
That is … J. However, if I view the message as "Plain ...
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How is http://d§.cc/ a valid URL?
While browsing online today, I came across the following URL:
http://d§.cc/
Somehow it works. In Firefox 3.6/Mac, the browser seems to interpret the URL as:
http://xn--d-jca.cc/
In Safari 5/Mac, ...
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Use `less` pager on file with non-standard encoding
I often use the less pager to view logfiles. Usually I use less -F to follow the progress of the log à la tail.
However, some logfiles use national characters in a non-standard encoding (Latin-1, ...
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Converting the encoding of a text file (Mac OS X) [duplicate]
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How can I convert multiple files to UTF-8 encoding using *nix command line tools?
Okay, now that I can detect the encoding, I know that my encoding is using charset=iso-8859-1 ...
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