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asp.net Output Encoding?

I'm not even sure i'm calling this the right thing. I'm just starting to get into ASP.Net and of course i'm starting to see syntax like <% "Code here" %>. So far i've seen <%: %>, <%= %>, <%# %>. Of course google doesn't like these symbols for searching so searching for help is futile :). Maybe this type of syntax is back from classic AS...

URLEncoder and URLDecoder encode and decode Javadoc Note: What if UTF-8 is not used?

So, the javadoc for URLEncoder's encode and URLDecoder's decode have this note in them: Note: The World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation states that UTF-8 should be used. Not doing so may introduce incompatibilites." However, if someone sends in a request with a different encoding type, wouldn't it be a bad idea to encode with UTF-...

Why haven't ASCII and ISO-8859-1 encoding been relegated to history?

It seems to me if UTF-8 was the only encoding used everywhere ever, there would be a lot less issues with code: Don't even need to think about encoding issues. No issues with mixed 1-2-byte character streaming, because everything uses 2 bytes. Browsers don't need to wait for the <meta> tag specifying encoding before they can do anythin...

How to spamproof a mailto link ?

I want visitors to be able to click on (or copy) an email address directly on my webpage. However, if I could make it (a little bit) harder for bots and other crawlers to get said email address and register it in a spam list, it would be awesome. I found different ways of doing this (i.e. encoding mailto HTML links), either with JavaScr...

Best output type and coding practices for __repr__() functions?

Lately, I've had lots of trouble with __repr__(), format(), and encodings. Should the output of __repr__() be encoded or be a unicode string? Is there a best encoding for the result of __repr__() in Python? What I want to output does have non-ASCII characters. I use Python 2.x, and want to write code that can easily be adapted to Pyt...

php urlencode for linkedin

Apparently Linkedin is funny about urlencoding the ~ in https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~ my problem is that i use an oauth library so I need to keep things consistent. is there a way to urlencode just part of the string so in case i have the ~ i can leave that out and put it back in at the same spot after encoding? thank you ...

discover specific encoding of dds file

I have a list of DDS files and I need to know how each one was encoded (RGBA, mipmap levels, compression, etc). Is there an utility or tool to do so? ...

Double url encoding problem php

Hi Just recently I stumble upon a strange url encoding problem. I'm trying to encode (using php urlencode) this test title: Quiz: Are The'se Com!!ments Ab_+=&out the 2001 iPod or 2010 iPad? and then submit it to twitter using following url (user clicks 'share this content' link on my website): http://www.twitter.com/home/?status=htt...

DER encoding - How to convert implicit tag to explicit tag

I have an X.509 certificate that contains a set of data with the following IMPLICIT [0] tag: A0 81 C6 (value)... And I have this excerpt from a standards document: The IMPLICIT [0] tag is not used for the DER encoding, rather an EXPLICIT SET OF tag is used. That is, the DER encoding of the EXPLICIT SET OF tag, rather than...

Why doesn't gedit recognize the encoding of my output file created from perl program?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; open (EVENTLOGFILE, "<eventlog.txt") || die("Could not open file eventlog file"); open (EVENTLOGFILE_NODATETIME, ">eventlog_nodatetime.txt") || die("Could not open new event log file"); my($line) = ""; while ($line = <EVENTLOGFILE>) { my @fields = split /[ \t]/, $line; my($newline) = ""; my($i) = 1; ...

& symbol encoded to %2526 in url

I need to replace the encoded value for the & sign in my url so the search query is successful. Im struggling to copy a similar method from the solution in this post for a query string such as below. lovelakedistrict.com/result/?q=Brookfield+Bed+%2526+Breakfast I want it to be like so lovelakedistrict.com/result/?q=Brookfield+Bed+&+Br...

Delphi: CDO.Message encoding problems

Hi! We wrote a Delphi program that send some informations with CDO. In my Win7 machine (hungarian) the accents are working fine. So if I sent a mail with "ÁÉÍÓÖŐÚÜŰ", I got it in this format. I used iso-8859-2 encoding in the body, and this encode the subject, and the email addresses to (the sender address is contains name). I though...

How to encode a WAV to a mp3 on a Android device

I'm simplified my question and offered a bounty: What options are there for compressing raw PCM audio data to a mp3 on a Android device. My original post: I'm creating a synthesiser on my Android phone, and I've been generating PCM data to send to the speakers. Now I'm wondering if I can encode this PCM data as a mp3 to save to the sdca...

Escape brackets on php for javascript

For example i've a php script with this content: <?php $msg = addslashes("I'm a message. The what happened >:("); echo "<script>alert($msg); return false;</script>"; ?> But the alert get broken by the last "(". How can i solve this? ...

ASP: request.form is not returning value?

I have following form, <form action="contact_us.asp" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="form1" id="form1"> <input name="firstname" type="text" id="firstname" size="30" /> <input name="lastname" type="text" id="lastname" size="30" /> <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" /> </form> But wh...

How to convert hebrew (unicode) to Ascii in c#?

I have to create some sort of text file in which there are numbers and Hebrew letters decoded to ASCII. This is file creation method which triggers on ButtonClick protected void ToFile(object sender, EventArgs e) { filename = Transactions.generateDateYMDHMS(); string path = string.Format("{0}{1}.001", Server.MapPath("~/transact...

How do I print a list of strings, when I can't know the char encoding in advance?

I am retrieving a list of names from a webservice using a client I've written in Python. Upon retrieving the list, I encode each name to unicode and then print each of them to stdout. When I get to the name "Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson", I get the following error: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 0: ...

BufferedWriter#write(int) javadoc query

The Javadoc for this says: Only the lower two bytes of the integer oneChar are written. What effect, if any, does this have on writing non-utf8 encoded chars which have been cast to an int? Update: The code in question receives data from a socket and writes it to a file. (A lot of things happen between receiving and writing, so I can...

System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(s) different values for a string on the same computer, different programs.

I'm doing a System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(s) on a string in two different programs (one console, one web) using .NET 2.0 framework and the encoding is coming back different from the two. For the string "everything" I get the same result, but for the string "OnI3UwUc" I get two different results. For The "OnI3UwUc", 6f6e69337577...

Encoding data in URL for efficient transport

Hello, I'm searching for a library that can encode data in URL, because using plain "&param=value is" inefficient. I'm looking for a library that will accept a defined set of parameters and will encode it into a format that is safe to sent over HTTP GET request. I will be using this to send tracking events from my player to the backend...