invalid byte 2 of 2-byte UTF-8 sequence
I am trying to parse an XML file with , but ran into an error message "invalid byte 2 of 2-byte UTF-8 sequence. Does anybody know what caused this problem? Thanks. ...
encoding
Chinese encoding issue while listing files
I am running a Java application on a Solaris10 with Chinese. Now there are some files in a directory with chinese filenames. When I do files = new File(dir).list() where "dir" is the parent directory containing that chinese file, I get the result filename files[0] as ?????(some junk characters). Now the deal is that my programs file.enc...
what's the current mp3 royalties/licensing situation
So i see a lot of software that has mp3 encoding and/or decoding and I'm pretty sure that they don't pay the royalties to Thomson as required here: http://mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html So I'm wondering, is there a loophole that i don't know about? Is there a library that doesn't require any royalties/licensing fees? ...
MP3 codec for WAV files
Wav files support different encodings, including mp3. Is there a C/C++ library that would produce mp3-encoded wav files from uncompressed wav? If not, what would be the best place to start to implement one? ...
PHP Json Encoding w/ quote escaping in 5.2?
I'm playing with the flickr api and php. I want to pass some information from PHP to Javascript through Ajax. I have the following code: json_encode($pics); which results in the following example JSON string: [{"id":"4363603591","title":"blue, white and red...another seattle view","date_faved":"1266379499"},{"id":"4004908219","titl...
Strange Encoding problem - hebrew
I have a script which tracks visits & referers to a website. I send the document.referrer (I use escape() in javascript) to the server and store the string in the database, after decoding it using HttpUtility.HtmlDecode (C#). For most cases, I can parse the referer string and show hebrew characters, but there are a few cases which I ca...
Suggest encoding which removes slashes which I can use as the format for REST-style URL-paramteters
Given a path to a REST style URL: http://site.com/rest/customer/foo/robot/bar/1 When you GET it, it returns a PDF to the foo-customer containing page 1 of the bar-URL. While foo is the name of the customer bar is an URL. The URL usually contains slashes and might look something like this: http://anothersite.com/interestingarticle.ht...
encoding problem
In my web page a hyphen symbol shows up as \–. I don't know how to resolve this problem, can you help me? ...
Write text files without Byte Order Mark (BOM) ?
I am trying to create a text file using VB.Net with UTF8 encoding, without BOM. Can anybody help me, how to do this? I can write file with UTF8 encoding but, how to remove Byte Order Mark from it? Thanks in Advance. edit1: I have tried code like this; Dim utf8 As New UTF8Encoding() Dim utf8EmitBOM As New UTF8Encoding(True) ...
[How-to] Make a working xml file in php (encoding properly) to export data from online database to iphone.
Hey guys, I am trying to make an xml file to export my data from my database to my iphone. Each time I create a new post, I need to execute a php file to create a xml file containing the latest post ;) Okay so far ? :D Here is current php code ... but my nsxmlparser gives me an error code (33 - String is not started). I have no idea w...
URL encoding for latin characters in Java
I'm trying to read in an image URL. As mentioned in the java documentation, I tried converting the URL to URI by String imageURL = "http://www.shefinds.com/files/Christian-Louboutin-Décolleté-100-pumps.jpg"; URL url = new URL(imageURL); url = new URI(url.getProtocol(), url.getHost(), url.getFile(), null).toURL(); URLConnection conn = ...
What is \u0026#39;n and how do I decode it?
So I have a string that is in another language, most of it looks great, but parts of it is encoded incorrectly. How do I convert the literal string \u0026#39;n into its unicode(?) equivalent in PHP? ...
encoding problem when cloning from github to my windows pc
It seems that the encoding on my project is changed from utf-8 to windows-1252 when I clone it from github to my windows vista pc. Any ideas of how I can make it not do this? ...
What is encoding & decoding in communication?
Hello Everyone, Can someone please redirect me to some good references about the encoding and decoding in communication and different encoding techniques(unicode, base64, utf7) etc. Thanks in advance, Rupesh ...
SmtpClient (.NET) does not encode mail header in conformance with RFC 2047
I am using .NET SmtpClient to send e-mail where the subject might contain characters outside of the ASCII range. The RFC 2047 defines how e-mail text should be encoded when it contains special characters. Here is an example of a subject in an e-mail header: Subject: Votre enregistrement numéro 123 This should become, after encoding to...
Encoding problem with preg_replace() and scandir()
Hi, On OS-X (PHP5.2.11) I have a file: siësta.doc (and thousand other with Unicode filenames) and I want to convert the file names to a web-consumable format (a-zA-Z0-9.). If I hardcode the file name above I can do the right conversion: <?php $file = 'siësta.doc'; echo preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9.]/u", '_', $file); // Output: si_s...
Utf-16BE to ISO-8859-1 in PHP
Hi, i need to convert a Utf-16BE in ISO-8859-1 in PHP (i'm not an expert in encoding so i don't know if Utf-16 and Utf-16BE are the same thing). I've read somewhere to use the mb_convert_encoding function but i haven't that function because i don't have the multibyte extension installed. So do you know an alternative method to do this? ...
Why are accented characters rendering inconsistently when accessing the same code on the same server at a different URL?
There is a page on our server that's reachable via two different URLs. http://www.spotlight.com/6213-5613-0721 http://www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/1/M103546.html There's classic ASP behind the scenes, and both of those URLs actually do a Server.Transfer to the same underlying ASP page. The accents in the name at the top of the pa...
How do I set libavcodec to use 4:2:2 chroma when encoding MPEG-2 4:2:2 profile?
I have a project using libavcodec (ffmpeg). I'm using it to encode MPEG-2 video at 4:2:2 Profile, Main Level. I have the pixel format PIX_FMT_YUV422P selected in the AVCodecContext, however the video output I'm getting has all the colours wrong, and looks to me like the encoder is incorrectly reading the buffers as though it thinks it is...
How can I determine file encodings on Windows / IIS ?
From the answers to this question it appears there's a file somewhere on our server that's been saved with the wrong encoding. I've seen this happen before - most often when pasting from Word into Visual Studio, when "smart quotes" can interfere with Visual Studio's encoding settings when saving the file. Thing is - the problem I'm hav...