I have a JavaScript request going to a ASP.Net (2.0) HTTP handler which passes the request to a java web service. In this system special characters, such as those with an accent do not get passed on correctly. E.G. Human input: Düsseldorf becomes a JavaScript asynch request to http://site/serviceproxy.ashx?q=D%FCsseldorf, which is val...
I am looking to create an ASP.net page that will have a control like GridView or Repeater and the data to be displayed in this page can be either unicode or Utf-8 . I am really struggling to display languages like Hebrew and some asian languages. How do I show any type of language on the ASP.net page?? I have tried the meta tag option ...
I'm searching for a document (not printed) that explains in details but still simply the subject of character encoding. ...
How do I properly set the default character encoding used by the JVM (1.5.x) programmatically? I have read that -Dfile.encoding=whatever used to be the way to go for older JVMs... I don't have that luxury for reasons I wont get into. I have tried: System.setProperty("file.encoding", "UTF8"); And the property gets set, but it doesn't...
I have a PHP script (running on a Linux server) that ouputs the names of some files on the server. It outputs these file names in a simple text-only format. This output is read from a VB.NET program by using HttpWebRequest, HttpWebResponse, and a StreamReader. The problem is that some of the file names being output contain... unusual c...
When reading data from the Input file I noticed that the ¥ symbom was not being read by the StreamReader. Mozilla Firefox showed the input file type as Western (ISO-8859-1). After playing around with the encoding parameters I found it worked successfully for the following values: System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(1252) // (western iso 8...
I have made some code which exports some details of a journal article to a reference manager called Endnote The format of which is a list of items like below (an author): %A Schortgen Frédérique Unfortunately, I am having some encoding problems somewhere, as when endnote opens the file, this is what it makes of the above author: ...
I am using HTML Purifier in my PHP project and am having trouble getting it to work properly with user input. I am having users enter in HTML using a WYSIWYG editor (TinyMCE), but whenever a user enters in the HTML entity (non-breaking space) it gets saved into the database as this weird foreign character (Â). However, the thing...
Hi, I live in Norway, and when i make Django apps i would like to be able to name my apps with characters like "æøå", these characters work fine in unicode, but when i try to use these characters in app names, or in fields display text i get an error. Even better, i would like to name my apps by the english convention, but have somethi...
I need to convert the unicode characters to ansi characters byte[] encode = Encoding.Convert(Encoding.Unicode, Encoding.Default, report); I use this piece of code. While I am viewing this I found that extra ? character is added in the first part ?FF EE 20 12 ...
I'm working with a MySQL database that has some data imported from Excel. The data contains non-ascii characters (em dashes, etc.) as well as hidden carriage returns or line feeds. Is there a way using MySQL to find these records? ...
What is meant by HTMLEncode in ASP.net. How we use this HTMLEncode to controls. What is meant by urlEncode and in what way it differenitates from HTMLEncode? ...
I am really trying to show what htmlentities gives me, but it doesn't give & euro; for the € character. I am trying echo htmlentities(htmlentities("LISBOA-VIENA DESDE 99€ TAXAS INCLUÍDAS, RESERVE JÁ",ENT_COMPAT,ISO-8859-1),ENT_COMPAT,ISO-8859-1); echo '<br>'; echo htmlentities(htmlentities("LISBOA-VIENA DESDE 99€ TAXAS INCLUÍDA...
I have two String.printable mysteries in the one question. First, in Python 2.6: >>> string.printable '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!"#$%&\'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~ \t\n\r\x0b\x0c' Look at the end of the string, and you'll find '\x0b\x0c' sticking out like a sore-thumb. Why are they there? I am usin...
I have a large CSV with a list of words from a spanish dictionary. I wish to take each one and put them in a collection belonging to the letter they are in. i.e abertura goes in A However, spanish vowels can have accents in them like the world "ácido" In this case I still want it to go in my "A" collection. I realise of course, I ...
I have some JSON data from a web service which gives me data like the following blah blah <greek>a</greek> I need to be able to convert what is inside the greek tags into their symbol equivalent, using javascript. Any ideas? ...
I have a couple tables that are set to the latin1 character set but I suspect have been erroneously been inserted with some values that are actually encoded using utf8. MySQL makes this a little more complicated because it silently converts everything based on your connection settings. How can I test my hypothesis that there are some u...
I have a localization issue. One of my industrious coworkers has replaced all the strings throughout our application with constants that are contained in a dictionary. That dictionary gets various strings placed in it once the user selects a language (English by default, but target languages are German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Man...
I am using the following method for reading Csv file content: /// <summary> /// Reads data from a CSV file to a datatable /// </summary> /// <param name="filePath">Path to the CSV file</param> /// <returns>Datatable filled with data read from the CSV file</returns> public DataTable ReadCsv(string filePath) { ...
I have an HTML file with a ® (copyright) and ™ (trademark) symbol in the text. These are just two among many other symbols. When I read the html file into a literal control it converts the symbols to something else. The copyright symbol converts to � (open box in ff) The trademark symbol converts to ™ (as expected) If (System.IO.File.E...