Is the use of “utf8=✓” preferable to “utf8=true”?
I have recently seen a few URIs containing the query parameter “utf8=✓”. My first impression (after thinking “mmm, looks cool”) was that this could be used to detect a broken character encoding.
How to detect the encoding of a file?
On my filesystem (Windows 7) I have some text files (These are SQL script files, if that matters).
UTF-16 Pitfalls, Chinese
I’m going to be writing an application that is pure HTML5 and JS and MVC.net back-end.
We have .resx files that are getting compiled to .js files for resources in the html5 application. The application has to work in English and in Chinese which I understand to mean that we need to use UTF-16 everywhere.
When is it beneficial to not use utf-8? [duplicate]
This question already has answers here: Should character encodings besides UTF-8 (and maybe UTF-16/UTF-32) be deprecated? (8 answers) Closed 10 years ago. When is it beneficial to use encodings other than UTF-8? Aside from dealing with pre-unicode documents, that is. And more importantly, why isn’t UTF-8 the default in most languages? That is, why do […]
Why does UTF-8 waste several bits in its encoding
According to the Wikipedia article, UTF-8 has this format:
How to detect client character encoding?
I programmed a telnet server using C as programming language but I have a problem to send characters with emphases (é, è, à …). The character encoding is different between the telnet clients (windows, linux, putty, …).
Should Latin-1 be used over UTF-8 when it comes to database configuration?
We are using MySQL at the company I work for, and we build both client-facing and internal applications using Ruby on Rails.
Should Latin-1 be used over UTF-8 when it comes to database configuration?
We are using MySQL at the company I work for, and we build both client-facing and internal applications using Ruby on Rails.
Should a Java project use UTF-16? [closed]
Closed 13 days ago.
Reading UTF-8 using with-open-gzip-file
I’ve tried to read a gzip file, but unfortunately the UTF-8 characters are transformed: