encoding

Help creating ZIP files Windows won't block

I've made an application that takes tagged versions of a project from an hg repository and creates a downloadable ZIP file of that the tagged revision. The files are created on a MediaTemple server running Linux using CodeIgniter's ZIP Encoding Library. Everything works fine... on a Mac. But, when I download the files on a Windows compu...

How are file formats created? If it is all binary how does encoding change the file type?

I have read a few links on the topic of file formats and encoding, but how is it done? If all data is binary, what splits data into different file formats? What exactly does encoding the data involve? How is it done? ...

Blackberry encode MD5 different from MD5 in C#

Hi, I have my passwords encoded in MD5 in C# and inserted in my DB. MD5 MD5Hasher = MD5.Create(); byte[] PasswordHash = MD5Hasher.ComputeHash(Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(PasswordText.Value)); PasswordHash is inserted as is and look like 0x09C09E5B52580E477514FA.......... for example. In the blackberry app, I get the password, want to ...

Escape "+" with JS and PHP

Hi, i have made an app, you write some text, and text will be saved over ajax. Before sending the request, i escaped it with js. But somehow, the "+" Character will be converted to " " Space Character... So i tryed to find and replace before sending in "%plus%" but i get thes error message: Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid regular exp...

Urllib quoting problem: dealing with â characters from a latin-1 database

I need to get an â character into a format that can be passed to a URL. I'm obtaining some names as a json list, and then passing them elsewhere. result = json.load(urllib2.urlopen(LIST_URL), encoding='latin-1') for item in result: name = item["name"] print name print urllib2.quote(name.lower()) This produces a urllib erro...

filename encoding on server

Hi Folks, another encoding question. On my server, I want to have the possibility of having mp3-files with utf-encoded filenames, for exampe Начало.mp3 . Now when I save (or rename via my FTP client) a file to Начало.mp3, after refreshing, this file will automatically be renamed to ??????.mp3. I added a htaccess to both the parent an...

Why does the Java ecosystem use different character encodings throughout their software stack?

For instance class files use CESU-8 (sometimes also called MUTF-8), but internally Java first used UCS-2 and now it uses UTF-16. The specification about valid Java source files says that a minimal conforming Java compiler only has to accept ASCII characters. What's the reason for these choices? Wouldn't it make more sense to use the sam...

How important is file encoding?

How important is file encoding? The default for Notepad++ is ANSI, but would it be better to use UTF-8 or what problems could occur if not using one or the other? ...

Live streaming h.264 with FMLE 3.1 and FMS 3 not showing video

I'm using FMLE 3.1 to stream live video encoded with H.264 format with FMS 3 and Flash player 10 + AS 3 to connect to the stream. When I connect to the stream, just the audio is played. I'm able even to get the metadata information about the video, but I just receive the audio. I already tried some stuff like "Flash 10 won't play ...

How to unproperly encode my HTML chunk so it is displayed properly in my page

I need to retrieve some HTML tags from a database to display in my page. But when the web server outputs the query result (a small html chunk), it encodes the HTML before outputing on the page. Example : <a> becomes &lt;a&gt; The server behavior cannot be changed. If I could change it, I would! Is there a way I can encode my HTML chun...

Grails encoding problem Gsp. Help!

I'm with trouble on groovy server pages (gsp) where utf-8 chars are showing not propertly, like "?". But this occur inside grails tags like "${}". Example: <p>Não</p> --> output browser: Não - OK <g:link title="Avaliação Relatório"....> output browser: Avaliaç?o Relat?rio ${value? "Sim" : "Não"} output browser: N?o The gsp already...

UTF-8 Subject line appears as question marks in Gmail

Hi, I am trying to send an email with Chinese characters in the subject line from my program to a gmail account, but the subject line appears as ????. This is how the subject line is encoded: =?utf-8?B?Rlc6IOiri+W5q+aIkee1piDoiIfkvaDotbfkvobnmoTlkIzkuos=?= Is there anything wrong in the encoding? Is there anything that I have to bear ...

tool available for identifying and converting the file encoding

Hi, Is there any available tool in the wild that allows: 1) to figure out the encoding type of a file(e.g, UTF-8, Big5....etc) 2) to convert the encoding type. (EX. Big5 -> UTF-8) Thanks in advance ...

Special characters escaping with JS and PHP

Hi everyone, my application geting Text from a input field an post it over ajax to a php file for saving it to db. var title = encodeURIComponent($('#title').val()); if I escape() the title it is all OK but i have Problems with "+" character. So i use the encodeURIComponent(). Now i habe a Problem with german special characters like...

Facebook share description encoding weirdness

Hello There, On this link, the meta description from http://www.dontforgetanniversary.com has encoding problems with accents. I still have tho. I wonder where it could come from. ...

How does this integer encoding work?

In this code golf question, there is a python answer that encodes the lengths of all integers from 1 to 99 in english to a big number: 7886778663788677866389978897746775667552677566755267756675527886778663788677866355644553301220112001 To get the length of n, you just have to calculate 3 + (the_big_number / (10**n)) % 10. How does thi...

XML file encoding format "utf-8" VS "UTF-8"?

Hello. When the XML file was convert to ASCII. It is different values for user at the three characters of utf and UTF. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> I tried to create a new xml file with vs2005. utf-8 form file generated by default. which one is a more standard definition? thanks. ...

PHP encoding problem with Pound Sign

Hey guys, I am retrieving a variable that contains a £ sign from another page. I want to remove this and I have tried using str_replace but I am left with the following: �100. $amount = str_replace('£', '', $amount); Any ideas? ...

Encode data for easy passing over phone

I need to encode some data (text) so that it can easily be passed by the user over phone. The text contains random characters and is normally not longer than 100 chars. Example: "37-b,kA.sZ:Bb9--10.y<§" I'd like to encode this text into more human readable form so that it can easily be passed over phone. Base36 produces a text that...

Convert byte array into any base

I have an array of bytes (any length), and I want to encode this array into string using my own base encoder. In .NET is standard Base64 encoder, but what if I want to encode the array in Base62, Base53 or Base13? Is it even possible to create such universal base encoder? I know I could do it the simple way, that is, for each byte rese...