decoding

java: decoding URI query string

I need to decode a URI that contains a query string; expected input/output behavior is something like the following: abstract class URIParser { /** example input: * something?alias=pos&FirstName=Foo+A%26B%3DC&LastName=Bar */ URIParser(String input) { ... } /** should return "something" for the example input */ ...

MD5 purpose or uses

If we can't decode the MD5 hash string, then what is the purpose of MD5 where can we use MD5. ...

c# -> javascript, Json decoding misses property

Hi all, I have a c# object (below) that I'm trying to send to my javascript. My problem is, that while I can iterate over the items in the list, I can't get to the string-property ('Period'). Referencing the object in JS shows no property at all. After Json-encoding in c#, I can still see the property just before returning it to calle...

How do you get the glyph for a character encoded as 'ō' from a utf-8 encoded database field using php?

I have a MySQL database table with a collation of 'utf8_general_ci' and the value in the field is: x & #299; bán yá wén (without the spaces). When this is converted (for example by StackOverflow's editor) it looks like this: xī bán yá wén where the second character looks like a lower case i with a bar over the top. In PHP, what func...

Decoding a GIF question

For a personal project I'm creating a static gif decoder. Everything works well so far, except I'm having trouble understanding one concept from the specification: This block is REQUIRED for an image. Exactly one Image Descriptor must be present per image in the Data Stream. An unlimited number of images may be pr...

How do I decode mail header strings with their encoding type in them in PHP

I'm creating a small, web based, mail client in PHP and noticed that a number of email Subjects and Contents appear as follows: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Everything_for_=A35_-_Box_Sets,_Games_?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?and_CD_Soundtracks...hurry,_ends_soon?= =?utf-8?B?UGxheS5jb206IE9uZSBEYXkgT25seSDigJMgT3V0IG9mIHRoaXMgV29ybGQgRGVhbHMh?= =?windows-1252?Q?J...

Perf: Viewing thousands of images in Silverlight 3 on a 3D Wall

I currently work on a very cool Silverlight app that displays photos in a 3D wall space like the Wall3D demo that is thrown in with Blend 3. The problem I am currently facing is performance. The app works like this: As you scroll right or left the 3d photo wall rotates As each movement is made, the next column of photos are downloaded...

Can I turn off implicit Python unicode conversions to find my mixed-strings bugs?

When profiling our code I was surprised to find millions of calls to C:\Python26\lib\encodings\utf_8.py:15(decode) I started debugging and found that across our code base there are many small bugs, usually comparing a string to a unicode or adding a sting and a unicode. Python graciously decodes the strings and performs the followin...

Hex characters in varchar() is actually ascii. Need to decode it.

This is such an edge-case of a question, I'd be surprised if there is an easy way to do this. I have a MS SQL DB with a field of type varchar(255). It contains a hex string which is actually a Guid when you decode it using an ascii decoder. I know that sounds REALLY weird but here's an example: The contents of the field: "38353334373...

How to decode Unicode escape sequences like "\u00ed" to proper UTF-8 encoded characters?

Is there a function in PHP that can decode Unicode escape sequences like "\u00ed" to "í" and all other similar occurrences? I found similar question here but is doesn't seem to work. ...

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...

Is there Apache utility that takes Query String and some encoding and return Map of key,value[] url decoded?

Is there Apache utility that takes Query String and some encoding and return Map of key,value[] url decoded? ...

Ruby custom class to and from YAML;

Hi. I'm having trouble deserializing a ruby class that I wrote to YAML. Where I want to be I want to be able to pass one object around as a full 'question' which includes the question text, some possible answers (For multi. choice) and the correct answer. One module (The encoder) takes input, builds a 'question' class out of it and app...

How to decoding the string in iphone

Hi, I want to decode my string. I have used parsing and get a string from RSS feed. In a string these special characters are not allowed &,<,> in my app. In server side encoding those characters and give it to the string. So now i got the string like, Actual String : <Tom&Jerry> (only these characters are not allowed in node data & <...

md5 decoding. How they do it?

i thought, that it is impossible to decode md5 hashes, but i found tools, which decode them here. but i have no idea, how they do it in such a short period of time(it takes about a second). Help me please to understand it. Thanks ...

Unable to decode hex values in javascript tooltip

Hi all, I have quite the process that we go through in order to display some e-mail communications in our application. Trying to keep it as general as possible... -We make a request to a service via XML -Get the XML reply string, send the string to a method to encode any invalid characters as follows: public static String convertUT...

How is the blob of text encoded? Base64? Something else?

I am having a string like this H0TCxoL9HSXXwlwXgBJAAAaiAAACBAW0AQMDAAEBBAIA what format is this? Below are some more strings. I thought as base64 but when i decode that i get strings like D????&??_?P@ H0TCxoL9HSbXwl+NUBBAAHISAABIVFRQLzEuMSAyMDAgT0sNCkRhdGU6IE1vbiwgMjEgSnVuIDIwMTAgMDk6NTI6NTMgR01UDQpTZXJ2ZXI6IE1pY3Jvc29mdC1JSVMvNi4wDQpQM...

What type of encoding is being used?

I am currently making a program in which one of its functions is to extract the HTML part of a Multipart email. I have accomplished that task fine however there is a type of encoding on some of the characters that I can't seem to figure out e.g. ',' into '=2C' ';' into '=3B' '=' into '=3D' and it also puts random '=' all over the pla...

How to convert string with ISO-8859-1 characters in Oct to normal form in Java

I have string with ISO-8859-1 characters in Oct (\350, ...). How to convert them to normal form, for example "\350" -> "è" in Java? ...

Is this base40 and if so how can I decode it in C#?

I have several encoded strings and I need to decode them, my guess is they could be base40 encoding. I really need to decode, but it would be nice to do the encoding as well all in C#. BTW, I have tried all standard types of decoding before coming to the conclusion that it appears to be base40. I couldn't find anything about base40 enc...