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Struts2 request character encoding

Hello, I'm using Struts2. When I send 'special' characters like ä or ã through a form, the actions that receive it display those characters differently (like à + a little square). I know that I have an encoding problem, but I was unable to find where the request encoding can be configured for Struts2. Can anyone please help me ? Bes...

Encoding::CompatibilityError in rails

<%= link_to '注销', :controller => :user, :action => :logout %> this raises Encoding::Compatibility exception, and when i try <%= link_to '注销'.force_encoding('utf-8'), :controller => :user, :action => :logout %> this didn't help, either. but this works <a href="<%= url_for :controller => :user, :action => :logout>">注销</a> why ??? i...

short Unicode \N{} names for Latin-1 characters in Python ?

Are there short Unicode u"\N{...}" names for Latin1 characters in Python ? \N{A umlaut} etc. would be nice, \N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS} etc. is just too long to type every time. (Added:) I use an English keyboard, but occasionally need German letters, as in "Löwenbräu Weißbier". Yes one can cut-paste them singly, L cutpaste ö...

How to deal with ISO-2022-JP ( and other character sets ) in a Twitter update?

Part of my application accepts arbitrary text and posts it as an Update to Twitter. Everything works fine, until it comes to posting foreign ( non ASCII/UTF7/8 ) character sets, then things no longer work. For example, if someone posts: に投稿できる It ( within my code in Visual Studio debugger ) becomes: =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCJEtFajlGJEckLSR...

H264 Encoders other than ffmpeg x264

The iPhone app I am working on captures images in series within certain user-defined time interval, I am looking for a way to combine these images into H264 encoded videos. I have done some research on Google, it looks like I will have to use something like ffmpeg/mencoder on iPhone? (Also found someone ported ffmpeg to iPhone, ffmpeg4iP...

How to display non english characters in php?

Hi guys I've a basic question in php: I've 2 files: An html form with a textarea and a php file. All I want is to print the text the user types after submit is pressed. It all goes well when only english characters are typed but I get gibberish when I type arabic or chinese for instance. Is there a way to display all the characters? ...

Embed characters in component labels

I have the following code: var tf:TextFormat = new TextFormat(); tf.font = "arial"; aRButton.textField.antiAliasType = "advanced"; aRButton.setStyle("textFormat", tf); aRButton.setStyle("embedFonts", true); When i run this i get antialias on my radiobutton but the Swedish characters å, ä and ö disappears. Is there a way to manually e...

Problem encrypting/encoding URL variable

I have a class that takes a string in this format: 000067000000000012620060324b38e2cab3353 , encrypts the string then appends it as a get variable in a URL. The class that does the encryption has a function that looks like this: private function _code_encryption($enc_type,$a_string){ $iv_size = mcrypt_get_iv_size(MCRYPT_RIJND...

AJAX POST requests with JQuery don't urlencode '+'

I have a lot of JSON data I need to pass to a request: $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "http://"+HOST+"/users/rankings", data: "friends="+JSON.stringify(friendsArr), success: function(response){ $("#rankings").html(response); } })...

how can i escape '\xff\xfe' to a readable string.

i see a string in this code: data[:2] == '\xff\xfe' i don't know what '\xff\xfe' is, so i want to escape it ,but not successful import cgi print cgi.escape('\xff\xfe')#print \xff\xfe how can i get it. thanks ...

Encoding URIs with foreign characters

I want to display characters like "é,ë,ñ,עברית" as is in the urls. How can I do that? When I type something like "page.php?name=é" it turns the url into "page.php?name=%E9", not what I desire. There seems to be a problem with .htaccess when rewriting the url, it would just output error message. How can I fix it? (this is the rule btw): ...

How can I use httparty with UTF-8 encoding

Hi. I have url like this http://example.com/tag/София/new.json and I want to make get request with HTTParty, but when I do HTTPArty.get "http://example.com/tag/София/new.json" I get: URI::InvalidURIError at / bad URI(is not URI?): link here Any ideas how to handle this ? Thanks in advance, Mitko Kostov. ...

why a pdf document could be not searchable?

Hi experts,,, I have a pdf document with content in Arabic language and when I try to search inside the document for a specific word, adobe reader returns no results. it seems a format problem... how can I fix that? thanks. ...

QTextCodec subclass - how to register my codec

I need to create my own codec, i.e. subclass of QTextCodec. And I'd like to use it via QTextCodec::codecForName("myname"); However, just subclass is not enough. QTextCodec::availableCodecs() does not contain my codec name. QTextCodec documentation does not cover the area of proper registration of a custom codec: Creating Your Own Co...

Is there something magical about this? The file always turns to ANSI

I have created a file and saved it as UTF-8 I placed this code: <div class="top_pic"> <img src="<?php echo $this->images_dir ?>image.jpg" alt="doc ao fim do dia" width="632" height="320"/> </div> <div id="conteudo_menu"> <?php echo $this->conteudo_menu ?> </div> <div id="item_list"> <?php echo $this->vinhos_lista ?> </div> ...

Custom Base32 encoding code C#

I am have written the following code below to encode a bitarray into custom base32 encoding string. My idea is user can mix the order of base32 array as per requirement and can add similar looking characters like I and 1 etc. My intention of asking the question is: Is the code written in an appropriate manner or it lacks some basics. A...

Ruby 1.9, YAML, and string encodings: how to lead a life of sanity?

It seems to me that the YAML library that ships with ruby 1.9 is encoding-deaf. What this means is that when generating YAML, it'll take any string of bytes, and escape any byte sequence that doesn't output clean ASCII. That's lame, but acceptable. My problem is the other way around. When loading content from said YAML dump. In the ex...

Encoding problem

Hi, I have to parse the content I get from the web and it can contain special characters. In this case the content string appears like the following: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <products> <product> <id>1</id> <price>2.14</price> <title>test &#382; test</title> When the contet above is passed to the method ch...

How do I ensure that the text encoded in a form is utf8

I have an html box with which users may enter text. I would like to ensure all text entered in the box is either encoded in UTF-8 or converted to UTF-8 when a user finishes typing. Furthermore, I don't quite understand how various UTF encoding are chosen when being entered into a text box. Generally I'm curious about the following: H...

Wrong encoding YEncoded file?

I am using the NNTP library from this site, and I am trying to receive YEnc'd files. When receiving some small dummy file using this library I get the following response: Well all good, but when I decode the contents using YEnc32, I retrieve the info like: F˜e˜a˜t˜u˜r˜e˜s B˜e˜nQ I˜X 1.41 R˜e˜v3 (SS) N˜o˜n-S˜t˜e˜a˜l˜t˜h 12˜X -...