character-encoding

jQuery-ui tabs character encoding problem

Swedish characters get substituted when setting the tabTemplate option. For example using "ö" in the href: var $tabs = $("#tabs").tabs('option', 'tabTemplate', '<li><a href="#ö">#{label}</a></li>'); becomes: <li><a href="#%C3%B6">ö</a></li> ...

Hsqldb table encoding

How do I set the character encoding for a specific table? E.g: CREATE TABLE COMMENTS ( ID INTEGER GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY (START WITH 0, INCREMENT BY 1) NOT NULL, TXT LONGVARCHAR, PRIMARY KEY (ID) ) By default it's encoded as ASCII but I'd rather use UTF-8 for this one table. ...

Special characters not displaying, sifr r436

I followed the explanation on the sIFR wiki, but can't seem to get accented characters to display in my Flash movie. I opened up the Character Embedding palette, pasted "ÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýþÿ" into the "Include these characters" field after the ampersand, hit "OK", then re-exported the .SWF. The cha...

Smart quotes in a MimeMessage not showing up correctly in Outlook

Our application takes text from a web form and sends it via email to an appropriate user. However, when someone copy/pastes in the infamous "smart quotes" or other special characters from Word, things get hairy. The user types in he said “hello” to me—isn’t that nice? But when the message appears in Outlook 2003, it comes out l...

American cities with special characters in the name

Is there any site or reference which would list any American cities with special characters (such as or even just weird punctuation) in the name? While this isn't technically a programming question, it's related to a regular expression we're trying to develop. Thanks! ...

MYSQL case sensitive search for utf8_bin field

I created a table and set the collation to utf8 in order to be able to add a unique index to a field. Now I need to do case insensitive searches, but when I performed some queries with the collate keyword and I got: mysql> select * from page where pageTitle="Something" Collate utf8_general_ci; ERROR 1253 (42000): COLLATION 'utf8_gener...

Reading a UTF8 CSV file with Python

I am trying to read a CSV file with accented characters with Python (only French and/or Spanish characters). Based on the Python 2.5 documentation for the csvreader (http://docs.python.org/library/csv.html), I came up with the following code to read the CSV file since the csvreader supports only ASCII. def unicode_csv_reader(unicode_csv...

How do I set Character Encoding to UTF-8 for default.html?

Hi all, I spent the last few hours getting my website to validate HTML 4.01 Strict and I actually have succeeded in that but there is still one warning which I can't get rid of. The warning is: Character Encoding mismatch! The character encoding specified in the HTTP header (iso-8859-1) is different from the value in the ...

How to insert special characters in database??

Hi there!! I have characters like ó, ö and so on. When i insert these data into the table it displays like these ó ö. I am using php mysql. Is there any solution for this??? Thank you in advance ...

NSArray from URL encoding problem

So I have the following code: NSURL *baseURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.baseurltoanxmlpage.com"]; NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString: @"page.php" relativeToURL:baseURL]; NSArray *array = [NSArray arrayWithContentsOfURL:url]; If the XML page is as follows: <array><dict><key>City</key><string>Montreal</string></dict></array> ...

How can I programmatically determine the current default codepage of Windows?

I have to convert the encoding of a string output of a VB6 application to a specific encoding. The problem is, I don't know the encoding of the string, because of that: According to the VB6 documentation when accessing certain API functions the internal Unicode strings are converted to ANSI strings using the default codepage of Wind...

PHP: Detect encoding and make everything UTF-8

Hello! I'm reading out lots of texts from various RSS feeds and inserting them into my database. Of course, there are several different character encodings used in the feeds, e.g. UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1. Unfortunately, there are sometimes problems with the encodings of the texts. Example: 1) The "ß" in "Fußball" should look like this i...

Is there any HTML URL encoding function freely available on web?? (Implementation in C)

I want to use URL encoder for my C program. I am wondering if there is any freely available URL encoding function implemented in C (on the web)??? I tried searching it, but couldn't get one :( ...

How can I find the byte encoding of a TIBCO Rendezvous message?

In my Java application, I am archiving TIBCO RV messages to a file as bytes. I am writing a small utility app that will play the messages back. This way I can just create a TibrvMsg object from the bytes without having to parse the file and construct the object manually. The problem I am having is that I am reading a file that was cre...

What is the proper way to URL encode Unicode characters?

I know of the non-standard %uxxxx scheme but that doesn't seem like a wise choice since the scheme has been rejected by the W3C. Some interesting examples: The heart character. If I type this into my browser: http://www.google.com/search?q=♥ Then copy and paste it, I see this URL http://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%99%A5 which mak...

how to change the default encoding to UTF-8 for server

i am using a hosting company and it will list the files in a directory if an index.html is not there. However, it will use iso-8859-1 as the default encoding. if the server is apache, is there a way to change it to use UTF-8 as a default instead? Update: actually, i found that it is actually using a DOCTYPE of HTML 3.2 and then there ...

List of Character Encodings

Is There A Book or Site That Teaches And Also Includes A Complete List of Character Encoding's That Includes Hexadecimal, Decimal and Name Versions? If you can name a couple of books and sites, that would be very helpful thank you. ...

How can I make a String with cyrillic characters display correctly?

On Mac OS X 10.5 with Java 1.5, I have this code snippet. public static void main(String[] args) { String name = "Алексей"; System.out.println("name = " + name); } The output is: name = ??????? I expected to see: name = Алексей How can I make this happen? ...

Batch convert unknown file encoding to UTF-8

I need to convert some files to UTF-8 because they're being outputted in an otherwise UTF-8 site and the content looks a little fugly at times. I can either do this now or I can do it as they're read in (through PHP, just using fopen, nothing fancy). Any suggestions welcome. ...

How can I process data to avoid MySQL "incorrect string value" error?

I am trying to use a Rake task to migrate some legacy data from MS Access to MySQL. I'm working on Windows XP, using Ruby 1.8.6. I have the encoding for Rails set as "utf8" in database.yml. Also, the default character set for MySQL is utf8. 99% of the data is coming in fine, but every now and then I'll get a column value that gives me...