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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Rsync Character set problems
I'm attempting to backup a windows box to a Linux box (Ubuntu 9.10) using rsync on the Linux box, and I get "file has vanished" errors for filenames with unusual characters in the filenames. I get a ...
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Help with PuTTY Terminal Settings - Unrecognized Characters
I am running PuTTY on Windows 7/64-bit laptop. I am connecting to an Ubuntu 9.10/64-bit system running OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-6ubuntu2. When I am running some command, the output contains unrecognized ...
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Unable to convert file to UTF-8
I am on Windows XP sp3 and I am trying to convert a file from ASCII to UTF-8.
I use notepad++ to do this. I go to Encoding > Convert to UTF-8 without BOM.
I save the file, reopen and it is still on ...
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Convert many files to the same encoding
I would like to make sure that all of my files are correctly encoded in UTF-8 in a big project repository. Is there a tool for that or a way to do it using unix tools?
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Batch change encoding ascii files from utf-8 to iso-8859-1 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Batch-convert files for encoding or line ending under Windows
I need a tool like this
http://www.rotatingscrew.com/utfcast.aspx
But the tool should do the opposite, convert ...
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Firefox character encoding problem
I'm using Firefox 3.5.4 (EN) under Windows XP SP3 (TR). When I open the web reports page of my company, Turkish characters are not displayed properly, so I manually have to change the Character ...
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Why do (Russian) characters in some received emails change when reading in David InfoCenter?
I'm using David InfoCenter as email software, and I have troubles with some of my emails in Russian. It's only a few letters, in some emails (sent from different people), like for example the "R" ("Р" ...
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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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Dreamweaver reverts to western encoding after its been changed to UTF8
I'm using Dreamweaver CS3, and when I built an application I forgot to ensure that the encoding was set to UTF8.
I went through all my files and changed the encoding from western european to UTF8. ...
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How do you process EBCDIC CCSID 65535 encoding without an iSeries?
An obscure question but just the kind I know SU users might be able to help with.
I've got a file from an iSeries that's encoded as CCSID 65535 (binary) which basically means that it's hex encoded (...
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App to convert from ANSI to UTF8 on windows [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Batch-convert files for encoding or line ending under Windows
Hey!
I have many files that are encoded in the ANSI (iso-8859-1) format and I want to change it to utf8.
I am ...
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Certain letters are suddenly showing up as fractions in Mac's Mail program
Certain letters are suddenly showing up as fractions in Mac's Mail program. Specifically,
lowercase a = 1/2
lowercase b = 1/4
lowercase c = 3/4
Capitalized, they work fine, the other keys are ...
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Uploading PHP files with FileZilla in binary mode sometimes result in error
This is related to the issue where downloading files in Filezilla results in \r\n\n newlines. The answer suggests downloading then in binary, which works. However, there is a problem uploading which ...
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Downloading files with filezilla result in newline \r\n\n
This is one thing that has been annoying me for sometime.
For some files, whenever I download them via Filezilla, and opening them up in Eclipise/Dreamweaver IDE, it will result in double line ...
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How do I find the encoding of the current buffer in vim?
Say I am editing some file with vim (or gvim). I have no idea about the file's encoding and I want to know whether it is in UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 or whatever? Can I somehow tell vim to show me what ...
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