How prevalent is UTF-8 really?
How wide-spread is the use of UTF-8 for non-English text, on the WWW or otherwise? I'm interested both in statistical data and the situation in specific countries.I know that ISO-8859-1 (or 15) is...
View ArticleHow to convert a file to utf-8 in Python?
I need to convert a bunch of files to utf-8 in Python, and I have trouble with the "converting the file" part.I'd like to do the equivalent of:iconv -t utf-8 $file > converted/$file # this is shell...
View ArticleUnicodeDecodeError codec can't decode error using pandas read_csv
I'm opening a csv file using pandas.import pandas as pd df = pd.read_csv('/file/planned.csv') I'm opening a file that contains about 2,000 records collected from all over the places in the world. When...
View ArticlePHP: Convert any string to UTF-8 without knowing the original character set,...
I have an application that deals with clients from all over the world, and, naturally, I want everything going into my databases to be UTF-8 encoded.The main problem for me is that I don't know what...
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Start-Transcript always inserts a NULL character (0x00) after every Japanese...
BackgroundI am using Start-Transcript/Stop-Transcript cmdlet to save the messages of commands launched from my PowerShell script.ProblemI ran commands that contain Japanese characters in messages like...
View ArticlePython CGI - UTF-8 doesn't work
For HTML5 and Python CGI:If I write UTF-8 Meta Tag, my code doesn't work. If I don't write, it works.Page encoding is UTF-8.print("Content-type:text/html")print()print("""<!doctype...
View ArticleHow to config visual studio to use UTF-8 as the default encoding for all...
I did the search, but only found ways to change the encoding for individual files. I want to start projects with the encoding already configured as UTF-8.
View ArticleEncoding problem reading files from old Apple Mac LC transferred to PC [closed]
I have used an external 3.5" floppy drive to transfer old files from an Apple Mac LC from 1992 to my current computer. It has been somewhat successful using MacDrive 11, but some of the text and files...
View ArticleKeep unicode characters in Java string
I'm writing a crawler in java to crawl some websites, which may have some unicode characters such as "£". When I stored the content (source HTML) in a Java String, these kinds of chars get lost and are...
View ArticleGreek letter pi in gnuplot not rendering
I've got this code in an Emacs orgmode file:#+begin_src gnuplot :exports results :file images/sinecosine.pngresetset terminal png size 360, 360 enhanced# Line stylesset border linewidth 1set style line...
View Articleñ enye spanish character not showing properly in my database [duplicate]
I have a script that can upload files, but whenever a filename has ñ it doesnt show properly or the file is changing its name. For example i have ñino.jpg when i upload it, it shows as niño.jpg, i...
View ArticleCan you provide and example of utl_raw.convert + utl_raw.cast_to_varchar2?
Can somebody please tell me how the utl_raw.convert works with utl_raw.cast_to_varchar2 in Oracle 11g by giving a sample code as i am not able to find an example use case online.ThanksGautam
View ArticleSyntax Error: Non-UTF-8 code starting with \xe0 in file "...." but no...
# -*- coding: <utf-8> -*-import reconversiontable = { 'ॐ' : 'oṁ', 'ऀ' : 'ṁ', 'ँ' : 'ṃ', 'ं' : 'ṃ', 'ः' : 'ḥ', 'अ' : 'a', 'आ' : 'ā', 'इ' : 'i', 'ई' : 'ī', 'उ' : 'u', 'ऊ' : 'ū', 'ऋ' : 'r̥', 'ॠ' : '...
View ArticleHow to load a TstringStream from DataBase with DBConnection set to UTF8 Charset?
We are changing the Database connection settings for our project from WIN1252 to UTF8. (FireDAC).It is a PostgreSQL Database created with UTF8 encoding;There are some text fields that we load from...
View ArticleHow do I get aspPdf to write special characters like æ, ø and å?
I am using aspPdf to convert a html page into a pdf file. And it is working fine, except from the special characters æ, ø and å.I have this:<!--#include...
View ArticleHow to load a TStringStream from database with DBConnection set to UTF-8...
We are changing the database connection settings for our project from WIN1252 to UTF8. (FireDAC).It is a PostgreSQL database created with UTF-8 encoding.There are some text fields that we load from...
View ArticleIf I am using UTF-8 strings is it risky to use standard string handling that...
From what I understand it is very rare for UTF-8 strings to have embedded NULLs, however there is the case that a person can put a NULL into a Unicode string explicitly with "X\0Y" or something like...
View Articlestd::stringstream gets broken after setting UTF8 locale
I'm having trouble with outputting numbers once I set a global locale in my C++ app.Here's a working code sample:#include <locale>#include <clocale>#include <sstream>#include...
View ArticleElementTree and unicode
I have this char in an xml file:<data><products><color>fumè</color></product></data>I try to generate an instance of ElementTree with the following code:string_data...
View ArticleHow to search a utf8 string in word files using powershell [duplicate]
I created a PowerShell script with assistance from GitHub Copilot. It works well with ASCII characters, but when I try to search for UTF-8 characters, it doesn’t return any results. For example, when I...
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