unicode

encoding conversion from JIS X 208 to UNICODE

How can I convert a JIS X 208 encoded string into UNICODE in C++? A VC++ specific answer would be helpful. The bigger problem that I am finding difficulty in understanding is that there are too many encodings for Japanese characters. JIS itself has many versions, then there is Shift-JIS. It would be great if some one could point toward...

MSVC Unicode not displaying English

Hello. My problem is that my Unicode c++ program that I'm writing in MSVC express is displaying all strings in an Asian font. I cannot myself figure out how to make it display in English. Thank you for your time. ...

Python unicode character in __str__

I'm trying to print cards using their suit unicode character and their values. I tried doing to following: def __str__(self): return u'\u2660'.encode('utf-8') like suggested in another thread, but I keep getting errors saying UnicodeEncodeError: ascii, ♠, 0, 1, ordinal not in range(128). What can I do to get those suit character t...

Is there a way to set search settings for ms office (2003) for non English charectars

Say there is a spreadsheet or table in MS access which contains non English characters (diacritics) such as à, á, â, ã, ä, å, æ, ç, è, é, ê, ë Since this system is used by English speakers, the end-user, when searching for values cannot guess whether or not certain words or names were entered in the English version or in the original ve...

Unicode RTF text in RichEdit

I'm having trouble getting a RichEdit control to display unicode RTF text. My application is Unicode, so all strings are wchar_t strings. If I create the control as "RichEdit20A" I can use e.g. SetWindowText, and the text is displayed with the proper formatting. If I create the control as "RichEdit20W" then using SetWindowText shows the ...

export and import users and database collation issue

Hi , I have mambo 4.6.5 on my source site and joomla 1.5 on destination site. I'm going to move users from first one to second. so I install userport component on joomla 1.5 and then went to mambo database and select my users with this Query : SELECT name, username, email, password FROM mos_users and export them to a CSV file which is...

Programming languages that allow Unicode in the names of functions/variables/classes?

What programming languages allow you to define names of variables, classes and functions using Unicode symbols? ...

Difference between WinMain and wWinMain

The only difference is that Winmain takes char* for lpCmdLine parameter, while wWinMain takes wchar_t*. On Windows XP, if an application entry is WinMain, does Windows convert the command line from Unicode to Ansi and pass to the application? If the command line parameter must be in Unicode (for example, Unicode file name, conversion...

URL Escaping Chinese/Japanese Unicode Characters for Internet Explorer

I'm trying to URL-escape (percent-encode) non-ascii characters in several URLs I'm dealing with. I'm working with a flash application that loads resources like images and sound clips from these URLs. Since the filenames can contain non-ascii characters, like so: 日本語.jpg I escape them by utf-8 encoding the characters, and then percent-esc...

Regex word-breaker in unicode

How do I convert the regular expression \w+ To give me the whole words in Unicode – not just ASCII? I use .net ...

What problems should I expect when moving legacy Perl code to UTF-8?

Until now, the project I work in used ASCII only in the source code. Due to several upcoming changes in I18N area and also because we need some Unicode strings in our tests, we are thinking about biting the bullet and move the source code to UTF-8, while using the utf8 pragma (use utf8;) Since the code is in ASCII now, I don't expect to...

convert function to delphi 2010 (unicode)

How to convert this function to Delphi 2010 (Unicode)? function TForm1.GetTarget(const LinkFileName:String):String; var //Link : String; psl : IShellLink; ppf : IPersistFile; WidePath : Array[0..260] of WideChar; Info : Array[0..MAX_PATH] of Char; wfs : TWin32FindData; begin if UpperCase(ExtractFileExt...

Should I support Unicode in passwords?

I would like to allow my users to use Unicode for their passwords. However I see a lot of sites don't support that (e.g. Gmail, Hotmail). So I'm wondering if there's some technical or usability issue that I'm overlooking. I'm thinking if anything it must be a usability issue since by default .NET accepts Unicode and if Hotmail--er, th...

How can I display unicode characters in a linux terminal using C++?

I'm working on a chess game in C++ on a linux environment and I want to display the pieces using unicode characters in a bash terminal. Is there any way to display the symbols using cout? An example that outputs a knight would be nice: ♞ = U+265E. ...

PHP6 and its future: How to best handle Unicode in a future proof way?

A week ago there was an interesting post on the PHP-Internals list: http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=125842046913842&w=2 I've been thinking for a while what we should do about PHP6 and its future, because right now it seems like there isn't much future in it. I started getting worried about the future of PHP6 quite...

Parsing Peculiar Newlines

I'm sure this is something very simple that I'm screwing up, but here goes: I'm trying to parse a log file that is generally formatted in UNICODE (and I'll freely admit that I don't generally know much about UNICODE, but the first two bytes of the file are 0xFFFE, and there's a zero between every other character). The peculiar part i...

JasperReport using iReport not support unicode character while export to pdf format

Hello I am using iRport design tool to create the report in my project. I have created .jrxml and .jasper file, it works fine in the iReport means it supports for the Unicode character and displaying all unicode characters but if I integrated this .jasper file in my java class and exports the report into the pdf format by using itex...

PHP: Convert unicode codepoint to UTF-8

I have my data in this format: U+597D or like this U+6211. I want to convert them to UTF-8 (original characters are 好 and 我). How can I do it? ...

How to get asian (Japanese) text from RichTextBox into a CString

Help, stuck wiht getting unicode text from RichTextBox in managed C++. I am trying to read rtb->Text into a CString object expecting to see something like: "\u33655?\u26538?\u23454?\u24377?\u30340?" The rtb->Text shows a proper Japanese characters but I cannot write them into a DB. So I need a wchar representation of the Japanese charac...

Extract files with invalid characters in filename with Python

I use python's zipfile module to extract a .zip archive (Let's take this file at http://img.dafont.com/dl/?f=akvaleir for example.) f = zipfile.ZipFile('akvaleir.zip', 'r') for fileinfo in f.infolist(): print fileinfo.filename f.extract(fileinfo, '.') Its output: Akval�ir_Normal_v2007.ttf Akval�ir, La police - The Font - Fr -...