gibberish

Receiving some nonsensical spam - what is its purpose?

Technically this might not be classed as a programming question, since I have already implemented a solution. But it's an interesting issue in the tech field nonetheless. Anyway... I set up a basic contact form, without any spam protection. On discovering that it wasn't working, I ignored it and set up a Javascript to change all links p...

Can you explain Microsoft .NET RIA services to me?

Ive read about it and to be honest it all seems like a bunch of gibberish to me. I don't want to read all about how it enhances your experience and you can use it to built this and that. Can you give me a clear definition of what it does, that would be awesome. ...

Encoding issue with form and HTML Purifier / MySQL

Driving me nuts... Page with form is encoded as Unicode (UTF-8) via: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> entry column in database is text utf8_unicode_ci copying text from a Word document with " in it, like this: “1922.” is insta-fail and ends up in the database as â��1922.â�� (typing new data into the...

Displaying hebrew characters with SQL collation SQL_Latin1_General_CP850_BIN2

Hello, We have a remote database that is out of our control. The database contains Hebrew characters. It's collation is: SQL_Latin1_General_CP850_BIN2 When we open the SQL management studio - we see gibberish. We asked the database owner (a different company) to change the collation and it isn't possible. Is there an alternative way ...

C++: Printing/assigning simple array prints gibberish

My code basically is to list ASCII codepoints of a string that is input, my following code is simple, here: #include <iostream> #include <string.h> using namespace std; int main() { char str[20]; int result[20]; cin >> str; for(int i = 0; i != strlen(str); i++) { result[i] = (int)i; } for(int i = 0; ...