character-encoding

is form charset required?

Hi, My website is set to UTF-8, do i have to set my forms also to utf-8 using the accept-charset for forms? My guestbook for example allows multilanguage so my guestbook database table is utf8_unicode_ci and all my webpages use the same template so the encoding for all pages is utf-8, because i set the charset for my webpages as utf-8...

MySQL uft8_unicode_ci

Hi, I want to make sure something is write. My database tables are utf8_unicode_ci and my site encoding and header is utf-8 etc and so on. I done a test and in my guestbook i entered this: á ʵßăāÇϢϞﻨ☺ ▓ ▓ẻ ▓ẻṎ ۞ ݤ Now great it displays on the webpage like it should and i tested other languages to etc, but on checking this in p...

latin characters showing in some parts of the page and not others

the page in question is Apple Amor You can see that in the footer the spanish vowels seem to be showing properly , but in the slide down bar(header) they get messed up. Any ideas why ? ...

Problems with characters like ÖÄÅ

Hi. My form <form action="saveProfile.php" method="post" name="ProfileUpdate" id="ProfileUpdate" > <input name="Smeknamn" id="Smeknamn" type="text" value="<?php echo $v["user_name"]; ?>" maxlength="16" id="ctl00_ctl00_cphContent_cphContent_cphContentLeft_tbUsername" onkeydown="return ((event.keyCode != 16) || (event.keyCode == 16 &amp...

Issue Decoding for a specific charset

Hi all, I'm trying to decode a char and get back the same char. Following is my simple test. I'm confused, If i have to encode or decode. Tried both. Both print the same result. Any suggestions are greatly helpful. char inpData = '†'; String str = Character.toString((char) inpData); byte b[] = str.getBytes(Charset.forName("MacRoman"));...

Asp.net Generic Handler Encoding Problem

Hi everyone, My problem is not too hard but really annoying. I'm sending values to Generic Handler via Ajax like that way. xmlHttpReq.open("GET", "AddMessage.ashx?" + (new Date().getTime()) +"&Message=" + Message,true); when message contains İ,ç,ö,ğ,ü,ı they are looking like that on Handler ������� In context.Request.RawURL İ,ç,ö,ğ,ü...

Delphi: Encoding Strings as Python do

Hi! I want to encode strings as Python do. Python code is this: def EncodeToUTF(inputstr): uns = inputstr.decode('iso-8859-2') utfs = uns.encode('utf-8') return utfs This is very simple. But in Delphi I don't understand, how to encode, to force first the good character set (no matter, which computer we have). I tried this te...

Simple Conversion Of String To UTF-8 in Ruby 1.8

I know that in Ruby 1.9 you can easily re-encode a string like this. s = s.encode('UTF-8') What is the equivalent in Ruby 1.8? What require lines does it need. All the tutorials I have seen are needlessly complicated and I don't understand what is going on. Cheers! ...

SQL_ASCII and Java remote access to PostgreSQL

Hallo, I tried to send the request to PostgreSQL 8.x that has character encoding SQL_ASCII. Sadly I can not convert it to UTF-8 in any way: neither sending connection properties client_encoding=UTF8 using springframework, nor "SET CLIENT_ENCODING = 'UTF8';" directly in jdbc transaction - nothing helps. On setting client encoding in jd...

What collation should I use to store foriegn characters in a table?

I'm using google translate with my website to translate short, frequently used phrases. Instead of asking google for a translation every time, I thought of caching the translations in a MySQL table. Anyway, it works fine for latin characters, but fails for others like asian. What collation/charset would be the best to use? Also - I've ...

UpdatePanel seems to re-encode characters in the page title?

I have pages with special characters in the title for proper typography, for example it says Exchange ‘07 Groups" with a proper apostrophe, not a single quote. The HTML entity for the apostrophe is &#8216; So, I've found that if I set the page title from VB, the title displays just fine, but as soon as an update panel updates that HTML...

How to filter a Font Character in php

I have an arial character giving me a headache. U+02DD turns into a question mark after I turn its document into a phpquery object. What is an efficient method for removing the character in php by referring to it as 'U+02DD'? ...

javascript, mysql database and escaping 'weird' characters

Hey there. On my website visitors can do some inline editing. I use ajax for it with a MySQL database and PHP. I expect the Dutch language to be used on the website. My challenge is to get the character encoding to work well. I could use advice on: the database (do i use utf-8? latin1_swedish_ci) the tables in the database (i'...

installing fonts in client machine

I'm building a website(PHP) with chinese fonts. The problem is most browsers doesn't have chinese fonts installed by default. I want the client machine to have this font installed to view the webpage. How can I do this? Edit: I've partially solved the problem with this website : http://www.font2web.com/ it works in IE and FF but not ...

Are all kanji characters UTF8 3 byte long ?

Can someone please confirm that all Kanji characters in chinese are UTF8 3 byte long. ...

email in iphone appears as jibberish

i'm using phpmailer to send myself notifications on email. the email is in html and the body contains hebrew characters. on my mac the email looks fine but on the iphone it appears as jibberish. i tried every possible combination of encoding header both on the html head tag and as a property of the phpmailer but no luck. any ideas? t...

How to detect the character encoding of a file in Java?

Good day, Our application receives files from our users, and those files must be validated if they are of the encoding type that we support (i.e. UTF-8, Shift-JIS, EUC-JP), and once that file is validated, we would also need to save that file in our system and its encoding as meta-data. Currently, we're using JCharDet (which is a java ...

Cleaning up UTF-16/CJK characters using PHP?

I have some files on my computer that are in UTF-16, though this seems to be because of errors or corruption of the files rather than intent - they're supposed to be plain english. I uploaded one of these (here). If I leave the encoding in Firefox (Viwe>Character Encoding) at UTF-8 then I get tons of gibberish (see screenshot). If I chan...

Putting UTF-8 string in variable of type string

Well, sorry about the confusing title but I'm having a slightly annoying problem with character encoding in C#.NET I have a bunch of classes generated from WSDL files, these classes have methods which take string parameters which are then submitted to a remote web service. This remote web service expects all text input to be UTF-8 encod...

Linebreaks and Spaces appearing in TextAreas

In our Cocoon environment we have a few forms with textareas. Once the user submits a form, an overview is displayed before the final submit is done. Therefor, each form-object's data is stored in POJOs. If the user is on that overview page and decides to go back to the form, the form is filled with the already submitted data read from t...