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Rails delayed_job sending email as HTML

Using delayed_job to send emails- files are filename.text.html.erb Sometimes they show up in my inbox rendered properly and sometimes they show up as HTML code. I notice that when I stop and start the delayed_job daemon on the server, it seems to help in some cases but not all the time. Any ideas? ...

process.standardInput encoding problem

I have an issue with encoding of process.standartInput encoding. i am using some process in my windows form application but input should be UTF-8. Process.StandardInput.Encoding is read only so i can't set it to UTF-8 and it gets windows default encoding which deteriorate native characters which are good in UTF-8. 2 processes are used in...

Convert UTF-8 to Chinese Simplified (GB2312)

Hi Is there a way to convert UTF-8 string to Chinese Simplified (GB2312) in C#. Any help is greatly appreciated. Regards Jyothish George ...

What encoding does InstallShield expect non-latin-alphabet string table entries to use?

I work on an app that gets distributed via a single installer containing multiple localizations. The build process includes a script that updates the .ism string table with translations for each supported language. This works fine for languages like French and German. But when testing the installer in, i.e. Japanese, the text shows up...

xml with special character, encoding utf-8

I have a few simple questions, because I got confused reading all difference responses. 1) If I have an xml with prolog: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> and I'm going to unmarshall it with Java (for example: JaXB). I suppose, that I can't put CROSS OF LORRAINE (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2628/index.htm) inside...

PHP - DOM class - numbered entities and encodings problem

Hi guys, I'm having some difficult with PHP DOM class. I am making a sitemap script, and I need the output of $doc->saveXML() to be like <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <root> <url> <loc>http://www.somesite.com/servi&amp;#xE7;os/redesign&lt;/loc&gt; </url> </root> or <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <ro...

How to turn string into readable by php server way? (ActionScript)

So I know that my server on real form submit turns %CE%EB%E5%E3+%DF%EA%F3%F8%EA%E8%ED into Олег Якушкин . How to peform string transfer from Олег Якушкин into %CE%EB%E5%E3+%DF%EA%F3%F8%EA%E8%ED using ActionScript? (Its ok if a space character as %20, not + , PHP should handle that fine.) ...

Does a servlet knows the encoding of the sent form that specified using http-equiv?

Does a servlet knows the encoding of the sent form that specified using http-equiv? When I specify an encoding of a POSTed form using http-equiv like that: <HTML> <head> <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=gb2312'/> </head> <BODY > <form name="form" method="post" > <input type="text" name="v_rcvname" value="...

ASP.NET Server.HtmlEncode Wont Encode €

I know that the EURO currency symbol (€) is encoded as &euro; in HTML, but the System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlEncode("€") doesnt encode it at all. Does anyone know why that is? ...

remove non-UTF-8 characters from xml with declared encoding=utf-8 - Java

I have to handle this scenario in Java: I'm getting a request in XML form from a client with declared encoding=utf-8. Unfortunately it may contain not utf-8 characters and there is a requirement to remove these characters from the xml on my side (legacy). Let's consider an example where this invalid XML contains £ (pound). 1) I get xm...

Best WCF config based on scenario

Hello, Please recommend best approach (bindings, encoding, transport, etc) based on the following WCF scenario and requirements: Both client and service are WCF 3.5 based. Client and service will communicate thru Internet over SSL port 443. WCF Client (a Windows Service) is on w2kx server behind firewall/NAT. Client will initiate ...

Asp.net renders string with wrong encoding, but PHP doesn't (MySQL)

I took over some old php application with MySQL as database. Inside the database, there are tables including content with localized strings (therefore containing special chars) Currently there is a PHP application accessing that database. My job is to create an ASP.net (C# codebehind) application that accesses that strings as well. That...

Servlets response.sendRedirect(String url) doesn't seems to send the encoding, why?

Hi folks, I have some Servlet that explicity sets the character encoding and redirect to some servlet class Servlet1 extends HttpServle{ void doGet(..... ){ // ... request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8"); response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8"): //...... response.redirect(servlet2); } } clas...

How can I avoid encoding mixups of strings in a C/C++ API?

I'm working on implementing different APIs in C and C++ and wondered what techniques are available for avoiding that clients get the encoding wrong when receiving strings from the framework or passing them back. For instance, imagine a simple plugin API in C++ which customers can implement to influence translations. It might feature a fu...

Strange behaviour of mb_detect_order() in PHP

I would like to detect encoding of some text (using PHP). For that purpose i use mb_detect_encoding() function. The problem is that the function returns different results if i change the order of possible encodings with mb_detect_order() function. Consider the following example $html = <<< STR ちょっとのアクセスで落ちてしまったり、サーバー障害が多いレンタルサーバーを選ぶとあ...

how to test if a string is a valid UTF16 string?

I am using mongodb and javascript to do some string processing. Now I got some error like: Sun May 23 07:42:20 Assertion failure JS_EncodeCharacters( _context , s , srclen , dst , &len) scripting/engine_spidermonkey.cpp 152 0x80f4f7e 0x80f8794 0x811525b 0x811a953 0x8119fc4 0x8111bc5 0x81b408e 0x81c4ee7 0x81b4a10 0x817a881 0x817a7...

Convert charset name to NSStringEncoding

Given a charset string, such as "utf-8", "iso-8859-1", "us-ascii" etc, is there any built-in way to get the appropriate NSStringEncoding in Cocoa? Right now I'm looking at just building a NSDictionary containing a canonicalized version of the name mapped to the NSStringEncoding, then having a lookup mechanism that canonicalizes the inpu...

Color space - RGB and YCbCr question

Hello! I am now trying to understand how JPEG encoding works and everything seems fine except the color transformation part. Before attempting to do a DCT in JPEG algorithm, the image is transformed into YCbCr color space. To me this essentially means that we just (comparing to initial RGB image) take a chunk of color information and d...

How to read special characters from stdin in Python?

I'm having trouble reading special characters from stdin. Here are my attempts: import os dir = raw_input("Dir name: ") Dir name: c:/á os.chdir(dir) WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified: 'c:/\x81\xe1' Ok, so I tried to get the default system encoding and recode the string from stdin: import locale encodi...

How can I encode a Perl string so I can put it into an XML document?

I'm not too fluent with the perl XML libraries (actually, I really suck at understanding encoding in general), all I'm doing is taking a string that possibly has characters such as "à" and putting it in an XML file, but when I open the file, I get an encoding error at the line containing such a character. So I just need a lightweight wa...