character-encoding

PHP - ___ encoding to UTF-8 - is there an end-all solution?

I've looked across the web, I've looked through SO, through PHP documentation and more. It seems like a ridiculous problem not to have a standard solution to. If you get an unknown character set, and it has strange characters (like english quotes), is there a standard way to convert them to UTF-8? I've seen many messy solutions using a...

Character Encoding Not Being Transmitted by getJSON jQuery?

I'm seeking to send this string via getJSON to my app: Academia-Gate — the Nanny State & The Professors: My Brief Email Exchange With The Co-Chair of the “Cry Wolf” Project I have this code immediately prior to the getJSON call: jQuery.ajaxSetup({ scriptCharset: "utf-8" , contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8"}); Using ...

Query MySQL with unicode char code.

Hi, I have been having trouble searching through a MySQL table, trying to find entries with the character (UTF-16 code 200E) in a particular column. This particular code doesn't have a glyph, so it doesn't seem to work when I try to paste it into my search term. Is there a way to specify characters as their respective code point inst...

Java servlet and UTF-8 problem

I have some problem with UTF-8. My client (realized in GWT) make a request to my servlet, with some parametres in the URL, as follow: http://localhost:8080/servlet?param=value When in the servlet I retrieve the URL, I have some problem with UTF-8 characters. I use this code: protected void service(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServ...

unknown data encoding

Hi, While i was working with an old application with existing database which is in ms-access contains some strange data encoding such as 48001700030E0F465075465A56525E1100121D04121B565A58 as email address What kind of data encoding is this? i tried base64 but it dosent seems that. Can anybody with previous experience with ms-access co...

Set a script to automatically detect character encoding in a plain-text-file in Python?

I've set up a script that basically does a large-scale find-and-replace on a plain text document. At the moment it works fine with ASCII, UTF-8, and UTF-16 (and possibly others, but I've only tested these three) encoded documents so long as the encoding is specified inside the script (the example code below specifies UTF-16). Is there...

SQLite/iPhone read copyright symbol

Hi All, I am having problems reading the copyright symbol from a sqlite db that I have for my App that I am developing. I import the information manually, ie, from an excel sheet. I have tried two ways of doing it and failed with both: Tried replacing the copyright symbol with "\u00ae" (unicode combination) within excel and then import...

Json_encode Charset problem

When I use json_encode to encode my multi lingual strings , It also changes special characters.What should I do to keep them same . For example <? echo json_encode(array('şüğçö')); It returns something like ["\u015f\u00fc\u011f\u00e7\u00f6"] But I want ["şüğçö"] ...

How to specify character encoding for Ant Task parameters in Java

I'm writing an ANT task in Java. In my build.xml I specify parameters, which should be read from my java class. Problems occur, when I use special characters, like german umlauts (Ö,Ä,Ü) in these parameters. In my java task they appear as ?-characters (using System.out.print from within eclipse). All my files are encoded as UTF-8. and...

Perl latin-9? Unicode - need to add support

I have an application that is being expanded to the UK and I will need to add support for Latin-9 Unicode. I have done some Googling but found nothing solid as to what is involved in the process. Any tips? Here is some code (Just the bits for Unicode stuff) use Unicode::String qw(utf8 latin1 utf16); # How to call $encoded_txt = $self-...

JDBC character encoding

Hi there, I have a Java Web application using GlassFish 3, JSF2.0 (facelets) and JPA (EclipseLink) on MySQL (URL: jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/administer). The problem I'm facing is that if I'm saving entities to the database with the update() method, String data loses integrity; '?' is shown instead of some characters. The server, page...

displaying german characters in iphone

i have following string coming in the json response. "Gas-Heizung-Sanit\u00e4r" so how to display it. i want to display that \u00e4 as a german character.. NSString *str = "Gas-Heizung-Sanit\u00e4r"; NSLog(@"%c",str); it only prints the german character. ...

charsets in MySQL replication

Hi guys, What can I do to ensure that replication will use latin1 instead of utf-8? I'm migrating between an MySQL 5.1.22 server (master) on a Linux system and a MySQL 5.1.42 server (slave) on a FreeBSD system. My replication works well, but when non-ascii characters are in my varchars, they turn "weird". The Linux/MySQL-5.1.22 shows ...

Can I safely interpret ISO-8859-1 strings as Win1252 when parsing e-mail?

I need to support decoding ISO-8859-1 in my e-mail client. Specifically sometimes messages contain attaches that have filenames starting with "?iso-8859-1?". Wikipedia says ISO-8859-1 is pretty much the same as Windows 1252. I already have good tested code for decoding Win1252. Can I just use it directly and expect no problems? ...

Letters in WebView and TextView not showing up correctly.

Hi! I'm trying to parse html document, extract content and show it in WebView or textView. But some Croatian letters are not showing up correctly. The problem is in the page I'm extracting content from. In one part of page source letter is "š" or "č", and in another part the same letter is written as "&scaron". But my browser displays i...

Character Sets explained for Dummies!

I don't think i fully understand character sets so i was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to explain it in layman's terms with examples ( for Dummies).I know there is utf8, latin1(ISO 8859-1), ascii ect The more answers the better really. Thank you in advance;-) ...

Character-encoding problem spring

Hi All, I am stuck in a big problem with encoding in my website! I use spring 3, tomcat 6, and mysql db. I want to support German and Czech along with English in my website, I created all the JSPs as UTF-8 files, and in each jsp I include the following: <%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="...

Which character is used to fill contents of password text input ?

I need this filled-circle character for my sketch of the UI. I have not found it in characters table on my mac. ...

[Asp.Net MVC] Encoding a character

Hi, I am experiencing some weird encoding behaviour in my ASP.NET MVC project. In my Site.Master there is <div class="logo"> <a href="<%=Url.Action("Index", "Win7")%>"><%= Html.Encode("Windows 7 Tutoriál") %></a></div> which translates to the resulting page as <div class="logo"> <a href="/">Windows 7 Tutoriál</a></d...

How can I open files containing accents in Java?

(editing for clarification and adding some code) Hello, We have a requirement to parse data sent from users all over the world. Our Linux systems have a default locale of en_US.UTF-8. However, we often receive files with diacritical marks in their names such as "special_á_ã_è_characters.doc". Though the OS can deal with these files f...