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Charset problem, MySQL and get_meta_tags()

Hello, I'm trying to get HTML meta tags with PHP by using get_meta_tags() function. I'm using UTF8 for tables, charset/collations, as connection charset to MySQL and everything else. But unfortunetely MySQL cuts off the string when inserting to table. It happens while HTML encodings are different than UTF-8 (for example ISO 8859-1) Is...

Do I need to encode using Base 64 in my web service?

I am transferring messages to mobile devices via a web service. The data is an xml string, which I compress using GZipStream, then encode using Base64. I am getting out-of memory exceptions in the emulator and looking to optimise the process so I have stopped passing the string around by value and removed unecessary copies of byte array...

Cocoa iPhone Programming: Encoding/Decoding NSString

Is their a method to encode/decode HTML and URL (in Xcode, using Objective-C)? [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:<#(NSString *)path#> encoding:<#(NSStringEncoding)enc#> error:<#(NSError **)error#>] This doesn't seem to work how i expected. I thought it will convert special characters like "<" to equivalent HTML entities i.e. "<" in ...

Windows-1251 file inside UTF-8 site?

Hello everyone Masters Of Web Delevopment :) I have a piece of PHP script that fetches last 10 played songs from my winamp. This script is inside file (lets call it "lastplayed.php") which is included in my site with php include function inside a "div". My site is on UTF-8 encoding. The problem is that some songs titles are in Windows-12...

Save file with double quote

I have this code to write to a file, it works perfect but I have a case where a client who recorded double quote at the beginning and end of a record. I can understand that by encoding replace the accents, but I do not like me can happen. EDIT ini. string recno = string.empty; recno = "123;1548;1567;10-10-01"; EDIT end. using (File...

Guessing the encoding of text represented as byte[] in Java

Given an array of bytes representing text in some unknown encoding (usually UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1, but not necessarily so), what is the best way to obtain a guess for the most likely encoding used (in Java)? Worth noting: No additional meta-data is available. The byte array is literally the only available input. The detection algorithm ...

PostgreSQL + PHP + UTF8 = invalid byte sequence for encoding

I'm migrating a db from mysql to postgresql. The mysql db's default collation is UTF8, postgres is also using UTF8, and I'm encoding the data with pg_escape_string(). For whatever reason however, I'm running into some funky errors about bad encoding: pg_query() [function.pg-query]: Query failed: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding...

Ruby 1.9 encoding problems with Sinatra and Rack

For giggles I tried to start my blog using ruby 1.9. All the gems compile and work, but I crank it up and open it in a browser, I get this: Many newlines I haven't found any useful information regarding this. Code for the application is located here ...

How to display Chinese characters in ListView?

Hello there, maybe anyone have ideas of how to display Chinese characters in the ListView control ? ...

Windows Media Encoding C# capture window - how?

Env.: Windows Media Encoding 9 SDK, C#. I have a task to capture window video. Successfully captured desktop, as explained in C# code samples. Now trying capture window or area. C++ sample uses PropertyBag to specify area. Please help how specify region/window for C# capture code? I use Windows Media Encoding, because it simplifies follo...

Using FFMPEG library with iPhone SDK for video encoding

Hi, I need to encode several pictures shot by the iphone camera into a mp4 video file and I know FFMPEG can do this (the application TimeLapser and ReelMoments do it already). I plan to use this in my app iMotion (available in the appstore). I successfully install and compile the ffmpeg for the iphone SDK with this link : http://lists....

ASP.NET Excel export encoding problem

Hi! I'm doing some Excel Exports on the ASP.NET Site. Everything works except of the Encoding. When I open it in Excel, it looks like this: Eingabe Kosten je Gerät Gerät: Gerätebezeichnung: Betriebsmittel Heizöl in €: 4 Dieselverbrauch in €: 4 This is my code: Response.Clear(); Response.ContentType = "applica...

Regex to replace ampersands, but not when they're in a URL

So I have this regex: &(?!#?[xX]?(?:[0-9a-fA-F]+|\w+);) That matches all &'s in a block of text However, if I have this string: & & & & & <a href="http://localhost/MyFile.aspx?mything=2&amp;this=4"&gt;My Text &</a> ---------------------------------------------------------^ ... the marked & also get's targeted - and as I'm using i...

How do I set database default Encoding?

How do I set the the default encoding of my local file SQL-Server database? Thanks. EDIT: Removed the UTF-8 ...

Getting strange characters in text in Drupal...probably encoding issues, but how to solve

Good day. In my Drupal site, strange characters appear in text. Like, instead of what I expect "ideéenbus" I get De ide�enbus (I hope this comes out right here) Now this has to do with a character encoding issue somewhere. But, how can I set this in Drupal? Or is it something that needs to be set on the database instead? Hope someone ...

Cannot start session if documents are in different encoding

Hello , I think i encountered a PHP bug When my header file is in UTF-8 encoding and my index.php file is in ANSI PHP gives " headers already sent " error . Is this normal ? and if yes , can you explain why ? ...

Coldfusion XMLFormat() not converting all characters

I am using XMLFormat() to encode some text for an XML document. However, when I go to read the XML file I created I get an invalid character error. Why does XMLFormat() not properly encode all characters? I'm running CF8. ...

Why can't my web page apply its CSS?

Hi all, I have a simple website(primarily static html/css) but for some reason some of the pages won't apply the external css in Firefox (works in IE). http://bjmarine.net/services.html - Is broken http://bjmarine.net/index.html - Works fine I have compared both files and can't see any difference. I have tried them in editplus and no...

Why does my UTF8 data from my mod_perl application still get garbled in the web browser?

Before I begin, I would like to highlight the structure of what I am working with. There is a text file from which a specific text is taken. The file is encoded in utf-8 Perl takes the file and prints it into a page. Everything is displayed as it should be. Perl is set to use utf-8 The web page Perl generates has the following header <...

JavaScript Character Issue When Filling Dropdown With jQuery From External JS File

Hello, I'm running into a character encoding issue when I load a dropdown using jQuery from an external js file. This only seems to happen when the JavaScript object is not within the page. For example the below is the JavaScript object. var langs = [ {value:'zh-CN', text:'中文 (简体) Chinese Simplified'}, {value:'en', text:'English'...