character-encoding

Why won't MSMQ send a space character?

I'm exploring MSMQ services, and I wrote a simple console client-server application that sends each of the client's keystrokes to the server. Whenever hit a control character (DEL, ESC, INS, etc) the server understandably throws an error. However, whenever I type a space character, the server receives the packet but doesn't throw an erro...

Need to convert a ZIP file to a random text file.

As title says need to convert a Zip file to text file , no matter the size and no matter if it will make sense or not.But i need to reconvert it to that zip file again (Lose less). The main problem i am having is how to find a alternative text/number version of a character. The Ascii wont work clearly ,So need help what can be a alterna...

International JRE6 or JDK6 or reading a file in "cp037" encoding scheme

I have been trying to read a file in "cp037" encoding scheme using JAVA. I able to read a file in basic encoding schemes like UTF-8, UTF16 etc...After a bit of research on the internet i came to know that we need charset.jar or international version of JRE be installed to support extended encoding schemes. Can anyone send me a link for i...

Which coding system should I use in Emacs?

I am a newbie in Emacs, and I am not a programmer. I have just tried to save a simple *.rtf file with some websites and tips on how to use emacs and I got These default coding systems were tried to encode text in the buffer `notes.rtf': (iso-latin-1-dos (315 . 8216) (338 . 8217) (1514 . 8220) (1525 . 8221)) However, each o...

Problems with character encoding in ASP.NET MVC

Hello experts! I'm having a weird issue here. I have a bunch of Views, in which I have characters like this: é, á, ó, etc. In one of my Views, I can fetch data from the database with accents just fine, but in another one I simply get the "weird" characters. What can i be doing wrong? Do I need to configure something in order to this w...

How Do I Properly Format Characters From eBay and Amazon Catalog?

I am using the Amazon and eBay API via PHP5 and Curl to get product listings for a client. When I ask the API to give me a description or a category for a product, I'm sometimes getting something that looks like this: Estée Lauder When I go look at the XML download from the API, it shows this entry inside: <categoryName>Estée Laude...

Ruby: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8

I'm writing a Django project that uses the LESS language. I'm using the django-css application to do this. My colleague is getting the following error, but I am not. I suspect that this might be because the encoding is wrong on the file being compiled. The weird thing is that we cloned from the same hg repo so I don't see why his fil...

How to add diffrent characterset support for JtextArea?

I need to display a document, which is in Cp037 character Encoding, in JTextArea? I think JTextArea by default supports UNICODE character encoding. How to add Cp037 charater set support to JTextArea? ...

How many bytes is \n\r?

I have a .net app that is trying to ftp a file and we're ending up with 1 extra byte per line. My Line Separatro is Environment.NewLine which I beleive transaltes into \n\r. How many bytes is that? ...

how to properly display utf encoded characters on my utf-8 encoded page?

Hi guys I'm retrieving emails and some of my emails have utf encoded text. However even though my page is encoded as utf 8 - in some places when I try to out put utf text I get funny characters like : =?utf-8?B?Rlc6INqp24zYpyDYotm+INin2LMg2YXYs9qp2LHYp9uB2bkg2qnbjCDZhtmC?= =?utf-8?B?2YQg2qnYsdiz2qnYqtuSINuB24zaug==?= Whereas in othe...

Problem with XML encoding of database contents with Latin characters

I have an ASP Access database that contains strings in various European languages. The database was populated prior by agents in the respective countries. It contains entries with accented etc characters as you would expect. If I open the database with MS Access these characters show up fine. For example the the German equivalent of...

Servlet receiving data both in ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8. How to URL-decode?

I've a web application (well, in fact is just a servlet) which receives data from 3 different sources: Source A is a HTML document written in UTF-8, and sends the data via <form method="get">. Source B is written in ISO-8859-1, and sends the data via <form method="get">, too. Source C is written in ISO-8859-1, and sends the data via <a...

How do you get the selected character position in a JTextArea?

Hi! Here is a challenging question! Let me first tell you my scenario how am i implementing a solution to a problem. I am reading a log file and displaying it on the JTextArea. Log file is cp037 character coded. I was reading each file as a byte stream or byte array from the log file & displaying it. Anyways, i managed to display the t...

If I use Unicode on a ISO-8859-1 site, how will that be interpreted by a browser?

So I got a site that uses ISO-8859-1 encoding and I can't change that. I want to be sure that the content I enter into the web app on the site gets parsed correctly. The parser works on a character by character basis. I also cannot change the parser, I am just writing files for it to handle. The content in my file I am telling the ap...

gsm character encoding.

in php how can i convert normal text + accented characters in utf8 to gsm format for sending via sms. ...

Encode/decode a long to a string using a fixed set of letters in Java

Given an arbitrary set of letters String range = "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopABCD#"; I am looking for 2 methods to encode/decode from long <-> String String s = encode( range, l ); and long l = decode( range, s ); So decode(range, encode(range, 123456789L)) == 123456789L And if range is "0123456789" thats the usual way of encodi...

String codification to Twitter

I'm developing a program that sends tweets. I have this piece of code: StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("Recomendo "); sb.append(lblName.getText()); sb.append(" no canal "+lblCanal.getText()); sb.append(" no dia "+date[2]+"/"+date[1]+"/"+date[0]); sb.append(" às "+time[0]+"h"+time[1]); byte[] defaultStrBytes = ...

How do I read UTF-8 characters via a pointer?

Suppose I have UTF-8 content stored in memory, how do I read the characters using a pointer? I presume I need to watch for the 8th bit indicating a multi-byte character, but how exactly do I turn the sequence into a valid Unicode character? Also, is wchar_t the proper type to store a single Unicode character? This is what I have in ...

How can I stop the browser from url-encoding form values on GET

I have a form with method="get". In the form I need to pass the URL of a CSS file but it is encoding it to http%3A%2F%2Fwww... etc. Is there a way to stop the encoding of the URL as it is breaking the file. Thanks ...

PHP getting a bunch of weird code \u0644\u064a\u0646\u0643 \u0627\u0644

Hello I'm getting a bunch of weird html output in users messages e.g. \u0644\u064a\u0646\u0643 \u0627\u0644 \u0639\u0627\u0645\u0644 I assume their aribic characters decoded? How can I perhaps preg replace all these codes with something a little more useful? because search results are filled with pages and pages of this stuff Perha...