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Asp.Net Export to Excel - Japanese Characters

I am currently using Visual Studio 2008 for my ASP .NET application. I am trying to Export some reports with Japanese Characters to Excel via the Response object. When I try to Export, all the Japanese characters looks garbled. It works fine with Chinese Characters. Here is what I tried: I tried Installed Japanese Language Pack / Encodi...

Chinese/japanese characters in a search box and form.

Why is it that when I use Firefox to enter: 漢, the GET will transform to: q=%E6%BC%A2&start=0 However, when I use IE8 and I type the same chinese character, the GET is: q=?&start=0 It turns it into a question mark. ...

How can I open a Unicode file with Perl?

I'm using osql to run several sql scripts against a database and then I need to look at the results file to check if any errors occurred. The problem is that Perl doesn't seem to like the fact that the results files are Unicode. I wrote a little test script to test it and the output comes out all warbled: $file = shift; open OUTPUT, ...

How much computing power is needed to encode 640x480 jpeg images to some space-efficient form on the fly?

Which algorithm is most efficient in size of resulting video files? Is it possible to do the encoding on the fly with 640x480 or smaller images with 1ghz cpu 1gb ram desktop computer? ...

HTML symbol in flash variable

I got a Flash variable: <param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"title=$title\" /> $title is a string, but in this string I want to put: ë or in HTML &euml;. But flash doesn’t like it. How to fix this? thnx, stefan ...

HttpWebResponse encoding detection

I've been using HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse lately and I'm getting encoding problems. HttpWebResponse.CharacterSet doesn't always represent the real page encoding so I thought I could use the Content-Type meta tag. How can I read the Content-Type meta tag if I can't even decode the response (in case of wrong CharacterSet http header...

ASP/VBScript ServerXmlHttp Encoding

I'm pulling an RSS feed from a remote location using ServerXmlHttp: Dim httpRequest set httpRequest = server.createObject("Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP.6.0") httpRequest.open "GET", "http://www.someurl.com/feed.xml", false httpRequest.send() response.write httpRequest.responseXML.xml However there must be encoding issues somewhere along the l...

Conditional deserialization

I am still not sure whether the title of my question is correct and it most probably is not. However I have spent some time searching both the net and stackoverflow and I can not find a good description of the issue I am facing. Basically what I want to achieve is the ability to read some raw bytes and based on the value of some of them...

Spring MVC + Hibernate encoding problem

I work on Spring MVC + Hibernate application, use MySQL (ver. 5.0.51a) with the InnoDB engine. The problem appears when I am sending a form with cyrillic characters. As the result, database contains senseless chars in unknown encoding. All the JSP pages, database (+ tables and fields) created using UTF-8. Hibernate config also contains...

How NOT to skip BOM info (FF FE) when using fread or ifstream?

I'm trying to use fread/ifstream to read the first 2 bytes of a .csv with BOM info. But following code always skips the first two bytes (which are 'FF FE'): ifstream is; is.open (fn, ios::binary ); char buf[2]; is.read(buf, 2); is.close(); using FILE*/fread does no better. ...

Character encoding for US Census Cartographic Boundary Files

I'm trying to import the US Census cartographic boundary files (available here: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/bdy_files.html ) into a GeoDjango application. However, python is complaining about UnicodeDecodeErrors (for example, for the non-ascii characters in Puerto Rico). The shapefile description file (*.dbf) doesn't specify what...

Encoding Issue [NSFW]

Hello, I am having issues correcting an encoding type issue on a site. Unfortunately the site is non work safe (gay porn). For the brave: SNIP Ive tried setting the meta content from utf8 to iso-8859-1. Ive switched tables over to utf8 from latin1_swedish_ci but no luck. EDIT Note very pretty, but I exported everything into a text f...

RLE Encoding...What's the wrong?

I'm trying to make a RLE (Run-Length Encoder) Programme just for characters. I read the way it works on notes on net. And I tried to fix my code! Regardless I think that the steps of code are right, the code doesnt work! It appears some strange 'Z' as it runs. I really can't find what;s wrong! Could you please give me a piece of advice?...

Why does Term::Size seem to mess up Perl's output encoding?

Hello! The Term::Size-module jumbles up the encoding. How can I fix this? #!/usr/bin/env perl use warnings; use strict; use 5.010; use utf8; binmode STDOUT, ':encoding(UTF-8)'; use Term::Size; my $string = 'Hällö'; say $string; my $columns = ( Term::Size::chars *STDOUT{IO} )[0]; say $columns; say $string; Output: Hällö 140 ...

get_file_contents() PHP

Why have I got trouble with charset on echo? $url = "http://ru.wikipedia.org"; $site=file_get_contents($url); echo $site; ...

IE will ignore javascript files included that's using a different encoding ?

Anyone experienced this? Is it a bug? ...

Encoding issues with Microsoft Word characters in an AJAX request

Hi all, I'm writing a function to convert MS Word-styled text into Adobe InDesign-formatted text (it uses a kind of XML to indicate styling). The text is pasted into a TinyMCE rich text editor, which then sends the HTML-formatted code to a php function. I've tried this function to clean up the code once it reaches my conversion code: ...

Text not encoded properly.

In my masterpage, I have the following in the header. This allows me to put special characters into my website. The problem is that when javascript tries to load (on the client) special characters, I get that weird box. Example url... http://89.184.149.229/Sandportal/vinnan/trol-lna/monica-sakk--vikuskiftinum Text is below the 4 st...

Visual Studio 2008 project file does not load because of an unexpected encoding change.

In our team we have a database project in visual Studio 2008 which is under source control by Team Foundation Server. Every two weeks or so, after one co-worker checks in, the project file won't load on the other developers machines. The error message is: The project file could not be loaded. Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1...

Socket Printing issues: PHP/Toshiba B-SA4TM

Hi, we're having this toshiba barcode printer. I'm not sure whether this problem is hardware or php related. When we send a ° (degree-sign) it prints a € (euro-sign). I also tried brute-forcing iconv(): $a = array("UTF-8", "ASCII", "Windows-1252", "ISO-8859-15", "ISO-8859-1", "ISO-8859-6", "CP1256", "cp850"); foreach ($a as $enc){ if ...