encoding

Streamwriter: Polish characters are skipped?

I'm trying to make a small tool to help some guys converting data between a SAP installation and a Axapta installation. I get a text file i Western European (Windows) encoding (1252). They have put in some special chars to replace some Polish characters. Now it's my job to replace those special chars with the correct Polish characters. ...

Problem with Extracting NSString from TXT

I am trying to create one long string from a text file. This is the code that I currently have. I do not really understand the encoding and I tried to research but found nothing. This is the line of code that I have: NSString* data = [[NSString alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:@"12thnew.txt" encoding: error:NULL]; When I entered the enco...

How do you remove illegal characters from an xml file?

I am using the PHP SimpleXML way of working with XML files on my server. I only need to read the contents of the XML (I have no need to modify it) so I stuck to the simple and easy to use SimpleXML. But SimpleXML is having problems reading a certain XML file because it has some very strange characters. I get the following errors: Warnin...

MySQL UTF8 Database migration

Hi everyone, I'm having problems to migrate an utf8 database to another server... Each source and destination table has a "DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8". I use mysqldump to dump data and mysql < file.sql to import but when in the source table i have "España", in the destination i get "España". I read some guides, i used --default-character-...

C# Convert byte array to string, using preamble or default encoding

Im trying to convert a byte array to a string. The byte array includes a preamble (if the used encoder had one of those), and you must specify the default encoding if no preamble is stored in the byte array. My code looks like this public static string ArrayToStringUsingPreambleOrDefaultEncoder(byte[] bytes, Encoding defaultEncoder, o...

netbeans utf8 encoding mess - tool to search for source files according to its encoding and to fix them

I have edited several files ISO-8859-15 encoded php source files with netbeans 6.7.1, but it converted them (without asking me!!!!) to utf-8,and I lost several german characters in that process... I'm looking for a tool to find all the utf8 encoded files inside a directory (It's hard for me to tell which file has been broken). I'd also...

iPhone pushNotification DeviceToken - How to "decrypt"

I've already managed to get the devicetoken from APNs. It's type of NSData. So i want to write this deviectoken into my mysql db. I've already tried to convert it to a string without luck. That was my way: NSString *tokenTMP = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:devToken encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]; If i have the deviceToken in a rea...

Java implicit conversion of int to byte

I am about to start working on something the requires reading bytes and creating strings. The bytes being read represent UTF-16 strings. So just to test things out I wanted to convert a simple byte array in UTF-16 encoding to a string. The first 2 bytes in the array must represent the endianness and so must be either 0xff 0xfe or 0xfe...

Fixed-size character encoding

Hello world ! I am developing, in VB.Net, an application that reads from text files using a FileStream Object. I do not use a StreamReader, since the buffering it does makes it impossible to use Seek. Those text files form a database, with both index and data files. In index files, all fields are fixed-length, which is not the case in ...

UTF-8 £ sign not rendering correctly

HTML is stored in the DB. £ sign is stored as £ and renders correctly in 1252 however when I change the page encoding to utf-8 renders incorrectly ? I know its a simple issue.. ? ...

zend_pdf can't read existing pdf

Hi, I'm using Zend_Pdf to generate PDF files, based on existing PDF templates. The problem is, I can't read any of the templates - I get a "File is not a PDF." error because the first 4 characters in the file are "%???" instead of "%PDF" (I used "head" to check this). Is this a character encoding problem? I believe the templates are in...

Ruby 1.9: Regular Expressions with unknown input encoding

Is there an accepted way to deal with regular expressions in Ruby 1.9 for which the encoding of the input is unknown? Let's say my input happens to be UTF-16 encoded: x = "foo<p>bar</p>baz" y = x.encode('UTF-16LE') re = /<p>(.*)<\/p>/ x.match(re) => #<MatchData "<p>bar</p>" 1:"bar"> y.match(re) Encoding::CompatibilityError: incompa...

Encoding non UTF-8 text in Parameters in ASP.NET MVC

Background I have a web application that uses ISO-8859-1 encoding. When I pass parameters using Html.ActionLink(), the value is decoded to UTF-8: Web.config: <globalization requestEncoding="iso-8859-1" responseEncoding="iso-8859-1" fileEncoding="iso-8859-1" /> Index.aspx This is a <%= Html.ActionLink("test", "Read", ...

c# Encoding conversion?

Hi, I have a string which looks like: &#xC0; l&#x27;int&#xE9;rieur But it needs to be: À l'intérieur I tried changing the conversion. I know it's read as ASCII encoding. So I tried using the code: ASCIIEncoding ASCII = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding(); Byte[] BytesMessage = ASCII.GetBytes(Title); Title = Encodi...

how to change the output encoding, while displaying a file through php

how to change the output encoding, while displaying a file through php ...

How to encoding no sound recorded red5 video via ffmpeg

HI We recorded video via red5 server but no sound added ( because there was no sound environment ) . So there is no sound track in output flv file. and there is encoding error when we do encoding that flv ( no sound track ) into other video format via ffmpeg . error message is Could not find codec parameters (Audio: 0x0000, 0 chann...

Decoding URI related entities with Perl

I may not even be referring to this the proper way so my apologies in advance. Our server logs are constantly showing us an encoded style of attack. An example is below.... http://somecompany.com/script.pl?var=%20%D1%EB........ (etc etc) I am familiar with encoding and decoding HTML entities using Perl (using HTML::Entities) but I am ...

Streaming short sound files.

I have a script that generates wave files, based on user input. I want to be able to stream those wave files online(not necessarily as wave files, they can be converted on the fly to mp3 or whatever). Preferably through a embedded flash streamer, but a html5 version would be good too. The files are generally small, around 5 seconds long,...

Is a slash ("/") equivalent to an encoded slash ("%2F") in the path portion of an HTTP URL

I have a site that treats "/" and "%2F" in the path portion (not the query string) of a URL differently. Is this a bad thing to do according to either the RFC or the real world? I ask because I keep running into little surprises with the web framework I'm using (Ruby on Rails) as well as the layers below that (Passenger, Apache, e.g., ...

C# base64 encoding/decoding with serialization of objects issue

I'm using serialization and deserialization in C# for my Project (which is a Class). They are serialized and saved to an XML file. When loading the Project, all goes well. Now I'm trying to encode the serialized Project to Base64 and then save the file, which goes well too. The first line of the file (before encoded!) looks like this: ...