Questions tagged [charset]
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Using pattern and charset together in crunch
I'm using crunch tool in Ubuntu 22.04. It seems that the pattern option (-t) is not respected when used with charset.lst.
For example, I want to generate a list of 4 characters words having only the ...
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Weird character inserted when pasting with mouse in mobaxterm terminal
Example of weird character insertion:
I get an error because an extra weird character got sent : ▒
My mobaxterm terminal is in utf-8, version 20.2. Windows 10 21H2
It happens when I paste with the ...
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Incorrect cyrillic symbols representation in the GNU screen program
I use screen program to run a game server on a VDS. Sometimes I need to see what happens in the game and open SSH session via Putty and then run screen -x ... as usual. Recently I faced with weird ...
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Weird characters downloading files from FTP
Since a while I experience problems downloading files from all FTP servers. This mainly concerns for example .css and .js files. When these files are downloaded, strange characters appear in the files,...
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Are there charsets which doesn't have Space at Code 0x20?
Are there other charsets besides EBCDIC that doesn't have the Code 0x20 for a space? I saw some programs which has the space hardcoded as 32. Should I always use escape sequences for spaces or is ...
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Character set reverse search
I have a set of strings (well, filenames, but that detail I can handle myself) that I want to convert to UTF-8. However, by trying the obvious candidates I'm not able to do the conversion successfully,...
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What's the differences between different types of utf-8?
There is a problem with skype on linux. If I change my locale setting to en_US.utf-8, Chinese characters are poorly rendered (some are bold, some are not). If I change my locale setting to zh_CN.utf-...
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Should a use utf-8 or "utf-8" as a charset value in an email header?
When sending an email to an Outlook.com with forwarding turned on, I find that the forwarded mail is rejected.
On examining the sent mail and the mail sitting in Outlook's inbox. I find that ...
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Keyboard layout and displayed characters
What does happen when one switch keyboard layout (alt+shift in Windows) for e.g. from en to pl. Does it change the charset from english to polish or maybe encoding? Why when for e.g. setting it to en ...
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ffmpeg: CP1252: Invalid argument
I'm trying to burn subtitles into a video. My subtitles are in CP1252 and I have this error, I don't know why:
[NULL @ 0x5fe0040] Unable to find a suitable output format for 'CP1252'
CP1252: ...
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SSH connection using putty: using charset "UTF-8" instead of "ANSI_X3.4-1968"?
When I connect to my Linux server (Ubuntu 14.04) using putty I have some problems because the SSH-connection always uses ANSI_X3.4-1968 as charset (output of locale charmap).
However my system is ...
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How to convert Hebrew ID3/metadata tags from CP1255 to UTF-8?
I have numerous MP3 (and perhaps files in other audio formats) whose meta-data tags (ID3v1 and/or ID3v2 for the case of MP3) include Hebrew characters in CP1255 charset (or ISO-8859-8i, essentially ...
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How to remove characters from the names of files in a folder?
I have a list files in a directory, but some of them has strange characters in the name. How can I rename only this files to delete this characters?
The computer OS is Red Hat, charset UTF-8.
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LibreOffice Calc - Split one column into two
I'm moving user/customer details from my mother's old web store. Only problem is that exported .csv-file has name details in the same column like this:
[ col A ]
lastname, firstname
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Which languages does the character encoding UTF-8 support?
What written and speak-able languages does UTF-8 support?
How many languages does the UTF-8 support?
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