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What could cause the file command in Linux to report a text file as data?
I have a couple of C++ source files (one .cpp and one .h) that are being reported as type data by the file command in Linux. When I run the file -bi command against these files, I'm given this output ...
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Character encoding mismatch on certain web pages
I use recent release of Firefox for viewing web pages. When I visit some sites – this one and this – Firefox displays a diamond shaped character in the web page in places where punctation characters ...
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Chinese characters now show up as boxes
My folders on Windows 7 with Chinese characters in the names have now started showing up as boxes. I can still read Chinese characters off a webpage, but the rest are boxes.
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Why are these weird characters displayed in embedded YouTube videos, GitHub client and a few other places?
Edit: If you're experiencing similar strangeness as in the screenshots, try resetting your font cache. There's a brilliant free app called FontNuke which will do it automatically and worked for me ...
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Cyrillic export from Excel to CSV
I have an application where I upload some content in CSV format, however the main document where I have my data is an Excel document.
I use Save As » CSV in order to make a CSV file, but it is not ...
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What could cause strange characters in Vim?
I'm have this really strange problem in Vim using the NERD tree plugin, where, as you can see in the picture, the characters are showing up very strange. Where there is the ahat, ~V 3/4 it should be ...
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Filename becomes gibberish
Using JDownloader to download some files makes the filename looks like ".æ·å²è¬åï¼çç 港ä¸é" on my file system. The original filename is in Chinese. Is this a encoding issue? (original encoding not ...
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How to convert mounted filesystem between codepages?
I have an external drive formatted in ext3 (basically) that previously was connected to a Linksys NLSU2 NAS device. Now the NSLU2 is broken and I have struggled to restore the files on the disk ...
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Cutting & Pasting Vietnamese characters from a PDF
I'm trying to copy/paste a bunch of Vietnamese text from a PDF document to Notepad++ (or anything, nothing works). The pasted text is different than the source text. What would be the best way to go ...
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The text contains characters that cannot be saved in the current encoding. Possibility wanted to highlight those
After copying text from PDF-Viewer it sometimes happens that fi are copied as one character. When trying to save this document, there is the error message "The text contains characters that cannot be ...
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Why can't bash display symbols like æ, ø and å?
I have a file I've called æøå.js (just an example), and when I run ls in the directory where it's stored I get
root@chu:~/projects/someproject/server# ls src
a.js b.js ??????.js
So it seems such ...
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Why don't ANSI symbols work in PuTTY/Debian?
The awesome application tree, which I installed in Debian with apt-get install tree, has the option of drawing its output using ANSI graphics. Its output looks like this now:
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tqq node_modules
x ...
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MS Office 2010 Word change character encoding
I have a document that is not written in English but in other European language and when I open it in MS Word 2010 there are several characters displayed not properly.
How can I change the encoding of ...
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How to input special characters w/o numpad?
How do I type special characters (Alt+0???) in Windows on a laptop without ANY kind of numeric keyboard (even not one accessed by FN)? Right now I am using the NT 4 charmap (the XP one sucks), but ...
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View Big5 File in Text Editor
I have a file encoded in Chinese Big5.
Is there a text editor that I can use to view the file in Chinese?
I'm on Windows. If I view the file in Notepad++ I see it decoded with my 8bit locale.
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How are character encodings related to fonts?
I mean, does a font have to support every character encoding? Or does a character encoding have to support every font?
What do Unicode fonts mean? are they fonts that support only Unicode, and they ...
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Chrome is displaying international characters instead of English; how can I fix this?
I've run into a problem with Google Chrome on my laptop (my desktop machine, apparently an identical Windows 7 installation doesn't have the problem). On some sites, Chrome fails to render text ...
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Computer not displaying unicode characters
My computer recently displayed Unicode characters fine. However; it recently stopped displaying them, I can successfully display the characters in notepad on another computer, running the same Win 7 ...
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Keyboard sound distinction based on charset in use?
I am using two different character sets and have to switch between them frequently. As a lousy typist, have to look at the keyboard and it often happens that I have been typing a whole sentence in ...
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Why choose ISO-8859-1 character set instead of using UTF8 in PuTTY?
I have tried to do some research and I have to admit that I am clueless on this. If my question does not even make sense, I offer you my sincere apology for my ignorance.
PuTTY seems to use ...
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How can I fix my RTF encoding issue in Libre Office?
I have an RTF file containing Greek letters and want to view it in Libre Office. When I open it with Writer it appears to have an encoding problem like this guy's.
I copy and pasted the fonts folder ...
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Convert File Names into UTF
I have a folder full of sub folders and files which are named using Hebrew encoding (Windows XP - Windows-1255).
I now use Windows 7 and I want to convert all file names into UTF (Native Windows 7 ...
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Default PowerShell to emitting UTF-8 instead of UTF-16?
By default, PowerShell in Windows seems to be outputting UTF-16 (e.g., if I do a simple echo hello > hi.txt, then hi.txt ends up in UTF-16). I know that I can force this to my desired text ...
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Switching terminal character encoding while using TotalTerminal
I'm using the TotalTerminal 1.1.3 terminal.app plugin on Lion (10.7.1) for a visor-style terminal. TotalTerminal uses/creates a special profile which is used for every new tab opened in terminal.app. ...
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Gedit - how to set default encoding opening?
I would like to somehow make Gedit on my sister's laptop to open text files in Windows1250 (CP1250-Winlatin2) encoding by default.
She has a plenty of ebooks in txt format and opening them in ...
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character encoding in linux systems
I have web page its charset is 8859-9 and it was prepared in windows with char encoding ascii. from ftp access, I am opening it via gedit in ubuntu then turkish chars changes like (turkish ı became ...
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Search special characters or short mathematical symbols in pdf files
I have Adobe Reader, Okular and Document Viewer as pdf readers. The papers I read are often texts with mathematical formulae, generated by LaTeX.
But it seems that searching special characters or ...
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TextPad problem with filenames containing non-English symbols
I'm using TextPad 5.4.2 as a main ASCII text editor tool on my Windows 7 system. I'm happy with all its features but quite unhappy with the following bug. I have an external HDD with NTFS which have ...
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White Question Mark in Black Diamond
We are all familiar with the white question mark inside of a black diamond (�) when there is an encoding issue. Does this 'character' have an offical name? Or is it only referred to as the 'white ...
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Differences between “mime-encoding” and “character encoding”
I was wondering what the differences are between "mime-encoding" and "character encoding"? Are they both for encoding used in text files?
I picked up "mime-encoding" from here.
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Do text files store their encoding method for later decoding?
I was wondering if some text files
store their encoding method along
their text content for later
decoding?
Or is it the text viewer's job to
guess the encoding method for a
given text file, and the ...
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Character encoding after shebang in shell scripts?
I came across some Ruby scripts on Github. The first line is the normal shebang (#!/usr/bin/ruby), but the second line is the following:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
I didn't know this method of ...
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Chinese language support in Windows, installed language packs but some apps still show gibberish text
I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate and I've installed both the Traditional and Simplified Chinese language packs. A lot of software works with Chinese text now and I'm also able to use Chinese input.
Some ...
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How can I enforce so Notepad++ uses UTF-8 every time I create a new file?
I want to use the character encoding UTF-8 (without BOM) on my files. I can change the encoding from the "Format" menu, but it is reset every time I create a new file or open a file.
How can I do so ...
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How to convert character encodings on Windows?
I'm trying to work out how to convert a file to UTF-8 but I really can't find much useful info on google other than to use iconv.... I downloaded that but when I went to run it via the CLI it told me ...
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How to determine if zip is encrypted by AES
I have to determine encryption method of ZIP files I'm receiving.
Mostly I'm interested to know if AES was used or not...
Any idea ?
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How to set character encoding when opening Excel
Is it possible to set the default encoding for Excel (any version, e.g. 2010) when opening files like csv files (like you can in Open Office Calc)?
I When I try to open a csv file encoded in Japanese ...
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Vim encoding issue with danish characters æøå
When trying to input danish characters æøå into vim, I suddenly get "æ ø å " and then the questionmark blocks on reopening. The same goes for files saved in other editors and reopened in vim. I have ...
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Why does gnome-terminal display ���?
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 with GNOME Terminal 2.30.2, but when I ssh into a RedHat server, my terminal does not display correctly.
For example, the help pages for R look like this:
Objects of class ...
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Alt + Number key combination in notebooks
If you do Alt + 64 in a PC you will get "@" and so on for most characters.
I could not find out way yet to use this very helpful resource in notebooks.
Can this be done?
I would like if possible ...
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Difference in utf-8 conversion for multibyte characters
I have a text file containing some chinese charactes like 打印机驱动程序安装磁盘. By default the file is in ANSI code set. IF i save it as utf-8 in Textpad editor it is working fine, the binary values are ...
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use gedit to open file with null characters
I know GEdit has a bug which prevents it from opening a file with null (\0) characters in it. This is a huge inconvenience for me because I frequently have to open big log files with only a couple ...
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How does a character is printed from binary?
I know an ASCII character takes 8 bits but how do you print a character on screen with those bits?
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Thunderbird character-encoding problem
In folder properties, if I choose iso-8859-9 or windows-1254, messages with utf-8 headers does not show Turkish characters correct and if I choose utf-8, messages with iso-8859-9 and windows-1254 does ...
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Is cmd.exe of Windows 7 capable of displaying the degree character '°'?
Is cmd.exe of Windows 7 capable of displaying the degree character '°'?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_symbol
http://ascii-table.com/ansi-codes.php
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Changing the PuTTY character set for all saved sessions
PuTTY is was displaying some weird characters due to incorrectly set character set (credit to previous SU question for helping me figure that out)
Now that I know switching the Received data assumed ...
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How do I change character encoding of a text file in OpenOffice.org writer?
How do I change character encoding of a plain text file in OOO Writer?
I have a text file in Windows-1251 and I'd like to change it to UTF-8.
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Vim under Windows has a problem with some unicode characters
i am using vim latest version (as my main text editor), however, the encoding for keyboard language, other than english, doesn't work.
in every other editor encoding is fine (notepad, ultraedit, ...
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ASCII Code for the TAB Character? (Want to be able to input tabs into a web page textbox)
As I'm sure that pretty much everyone on here is aware the "Tab" key when used on a webpage simply jumps to the next element on the page; whether is be a checkbox, radio selector, button, another ...
