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Does MySQL collation type need to match PHP page charset type?

I have started debugging my RSS feed because it has some strange characters in it (i.e. the missing-character glyph). I started with two excellent beginner resources: The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html Chara...

How do I convert "byte gdicharset" to the name of the script/language?

The FontDialog class in C# has a property "AllowScriptChange" that lets the user select the script (Western, Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, etc). When enabled, the dropdown box provides all those options and whatever else is available depending on the font selected. If the dialog is successful, the font selected has GdiCharSet set a value fr...

set charset in rails application

I'm trying to setup my charset in a html view in a RoR application. I configured already the charset by meta equiv tag: **meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" ** It didn't work, so i tried to change my .htaccess (its a RoR application running under apache) but here is my problem. Normally i could use th...

ruby on rails x charset

hi, i'm having problem to deal with charset in ruby on rails app, specificially in my templates. Code that comes from my database, works fine, but codes like ç ~ that are located in my views are not working. I added the following codes to my code I added a function like that, but that still not working i have ç ~ codes in my application...

Does javascript force specific charset?

I am trying to use javascript, without framework(prototype, jQuery,etc), to insert data passed from a html form to an mysql database. I have managed to get this working but, get a problem with some special characters commonly used in my language(æøå). utf-8 supports these characters, and everything works fine when I skip the javascript. ...

what characterset to use when i create my database

So I am doing a lot of php tutorials and I always wonder when creating my different DBs... What charset should I be using? Depending on what DB interface I use it seems to default to different options. So what is the most common one I should use for basic programing... Or can someone point me to a good guide to charsets in MySql ...

Detect presence of a specific charset

Hi, I need a way to detect whether a file contains characters from a certain charset. Specifically, I want to detect the presence of UTF8-encoded cyrillic characters in a series of files. Is there a tool to do this? Thanks ...

Php Convert to ISO-8859-9

Hello, I use JSON to encode an array, and I get a string like this: {"name":"\u00fe\u00fd\u00f0\u00f6\u00e7"} Now I need to convert this to ISO-8859-9. I tried the following but it fails: header('Content-type: application/json; charset=ISO-8859-9'); $json = json_encode($response); $json = utf8_decode($json); $json = mb_convert_enco...

Editor required for Korean character set

Can anyone recommend a text editor which can support the Korean ks_c_5601-1987 character set? I usually use jEdit for this purpose but this particular character set is not supported in Java and hence jEdit also. ...

How to check the charset of string?

How do I check if the charset of a string is UTF8? ...

Accessing a Function over Database Link with Different Charsets in Oracle

I have a function in DatabaseA which i want to access in DatabaseB, so i created a DB link in DatabaseB and started accessing the function as SELECT function_name@dblink ('A0484') FROM DUAL; Doing this resulted in the following Error ERROR at line 1: ORA-12703: this character set conversion is not supported ORA-06512: at line 1 On...

Do certain characters take more bytes than others?

I'm not very experienced with lower level things such as howmany bytes a character is. I tried finding out if one character equals one byte, but without success. I need to set a delimiter used for socket connections between a server and clients. This delimiter has to be as small (in bytes) as possible, to minimize bandwidth. The curren...

What does UnmappableCharacterException mean?

CharsetDecoder reads: There are two general types of decoding errors. If the input byte sequence is not legal for this charset then the input is considered malformed. If the input byte sequence is legal but cannot be mapped to a valid Unicode character then an unmappable character has been encountered. I understand the concept of m...

stri_replace messing up characters

Hey I am getting a page via curl with this code: $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); $message = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); I now want to make some replacements to the code in $message, but before that I dump the code ...

Adding encoding alias to python

Is there a way that I can add alias to python for encoding. There are sites on the web that are using the encoding 'windows-1251' but have their charset set to win-1251, so I would like to have win-1251 be an alias to windows-1251 ...

context.Response.Charset = Encoding.UTF8.ToString();

I had used this in my code to set the Charset but IE did not like it. Any reason why? context.Response.Charset = Encoding.UTF8.ToString(); I ended up having to set it to just context.Response.ContentType = "application/json;charset=utf-8" or context.Response.Charset = "utf-8"; instead. Not sure then what Encoding.UTF8.ToString(); w...

Replace character in SQL results

This is from a Oracle SQL query. It has these weird skinny rectangle shapes in the database in places where apostrophes should be. (I wish we would could paste screen shots in here) It looks like this when I copy and paste the results. spouse�s is there a way to write a SQL SELECT statement that searches for this character in the fie...

Problem with UTF-8 in Create Schema By Hibernate

Hi every one, this is My hibernate.hbm.xml and I use MySQL <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN" "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd"&gt; <hibernate-configuration> <session-factory> <property name="hibe...

change char-set of page with jquery

can i change the char-set of the page in jquery ? i need it , because i support old system that not use utf-8. on user click i want to show different language form . It is text that come via ajax I CAN GET IT BUT COULD NOT CHANGE IT : var meta = $("meta").attr("content"); alert(meta); thanks ...

Tomcat : French accents in a solaris directory

One of our client bought a publicity in a newspaper and added to his URL : http://www.website.com/publicité instead of "publicite" (without the accent)... I'm trying to make the corresponding directory under Solaris and it doesn't seems to work. I grabbed the "get" request and it looks like the "real" request is /publicit%C3%A9 We tried...