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Decode weird characters in text file
Someone sent me a text file. Although I can read most of the document, sometimes there are unusual characters. When I open it in VIM, I see <92> in it's place. When I use gedit, i see a character ...
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Arrows don't work in Ubuntu
I'm using Ubuntu 12.xx When I'm in a shell (xterm or gnome terminal) and I press the UP arrow, the terminal prints "^]]A" instead of fetching the last used command like it normally does.
How can I ...
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Arabic Filenames messed up after backup. How to retrieve?
I needed to back up a computer with mixed Arabic and English (Roman) filenames because the computer hard drive was about to fail. The files copied over successfully, or so I thought.
When I went to ...
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Change default text encoding in EditPad
How can I set UTF-8 as default characters encoding for new files in EditPad?
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Can't enter Chinese characters into Firefox (using a pen)
I have a pen recognition software called Penpower Junior that allows me to enter Chinese characters into Windows with a pen recognition software. (I'm on a Mac right now but this is for Windows.) I ...
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How to find the character set of a file
I have a file in which the character "ı" is encoded by the bytes "df 84 de b1".
I am on Ubuntu and file -bi file_name suggests the file is in utf-8 but it isn't.
How can i find its correct encoding?
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Setting the character encoding to Windows-1252 on a per-process basis in Linux?
I'm using CentOS to host an old game server which uses the Windows-1252 character set, even on Linux. This means that in-game, special characters such as £ are not mapped correctly and appear as empty ...
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Printer prints strange characters instead of bounding box
A while back some of our printers seemed to be acting up when printing files from our Axapta 3.0 program. Whenever a bounding box should be encompassing the text, the (I believe) printercode is being ...
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Why I see `????` characters in command line output of `dir` list for non english named files? [duplicate]
In cmd I type dir My Document and get all non english letters padded with ?
But in file explorer I see them properly.
How do I fix this?
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Adobe Acrobat Copy and Paste Font messed up
How does one copy and paste in Acrobat when fonts are embedded in PDF and not machine?
I am opening an Adobe PDF and I copy the font from the PDF and then paste it
to word and the characters are ...
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how to change character encoding in mac?
I just edited a .html file using Adobe Dreamweaver, the charset is gb2312 since it's a Chinese website, then I used TextMate to edit the file, after I save the file, it was changed into utf-8 since ...
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Changing character encoding via Shellscript with TextExpander [closed]
Introduction
I'm learning how to type with LaTeX and I've found that the character encoding is very important to get good results. I find myself copying parts from pdf documents such as problem ...
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How do I type the infinity character in a web browser? [duplicate]
I can use Charmap utility in Windows to find, copy, and paste the character in any application, including web browsers. But what is the Alt key combination to type in the infinity character?
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Converting my iTunes library to romaji
I have just added to my iTunes library a bunch of new Japanese songs. When I say a bunch, I mean it. A lot of them. And their titles are mostly in their original Japanese form, which is in kanji, ...
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What character encodings were used before 1963?
It is said that the first character encodings, ASCII and EBCDIC, appeared in 1963.
My question: What character encodings preceded them? Did computer process characters before 1963?
In particular, ...
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Convert text file to ASCII, not ANSI in Sublime Text
We have a project where we need to convert weird characters generated from all kinds of file formats into ASCII due to compatibility issues. Is it possible in Sublime Text 2 to convert the encoding ...
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PuTTY: inputting some special characters doesn't work (Romanian)
I use PuTTY to connect to a CentOS server, and I sometimes need to enter Romanian characters from the keyboard. I use Windows 7 on the client computer; I have the server locale set up as en_US.UTF-8, ...
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The font has chinese characters but I can't type it out?
I am using a font, Kievit for a design project.
It is an English font however it says it supports Chinese characters.
By using Character Maps, I can see there is Chinese characters in it.
But every ...
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FFmpeg encoding for meta data wrong – need it in UTF8
When I run this command
ffmpeg.exe -i test.mp3 -metadata title="The Title You Want" -metadata artist="ÄÄÄßß!`n Artist Name" -metadata album="Name Fö#'ddp+!of the Album" -c:a copy -id3v2_version 3 ...
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How can I check the encoding of the tag in Mp3 file?
I want to ensure that the tag inside is using unicode, otherwise it may display incorrectly in media player.
For example, many mp3 in my pc is japanese so they are having janpanese character tag. If ...
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Scrutiny all visible or invisible characters of a text file
Is there any software that can be used to scrutinize all visible or invisible characters in a text file (characters like BOM, direction mark, line feed ...)?
Showing the Unicode name of characters ...
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Character sets needed to properly display “zalgo”
The following answer on Stack Overflow is famous for its convincing argument against using regex to parse HTML: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/505154
The content of the post becomes increasingly ...
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Cannot open text files with Turkish characters
I am learning Turkish and I would like to be able to open Turkish text files. I am running Windows 7 and I have even installed the Turkish display language for Windows.
But I am still not able to ...
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WinMerge & Encoding
I have a problem with WinMerge (or more specific: WinMergeU). I have several php files that have the same content up to the chosen encoding.
How can I tell WinMerge to ignore the encoding?
If this is ...
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Windows codepage is broken
My Windows installation has Latin and Cyrillic inputs enabled, but uses the English layout.
And I suddenly realized that non-unicode programs can not display Cyrillic symbols. They are displayed as ...
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ANSI file with charSet with latin character
I´m with a doubt about encoding/charset.
I make a test. Typing the string "TEST Á" without the quotes in Notepad++ with encode in ANSI.
"The ANSI charsets are all the same for ASCII characters such ...
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How to add CP-1252 to CentOS
We are processing files that our clients generated on their local Windows machines which use the CP-1252 character set. Occasionally, while processing one of these files in our backend (running on ...
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Automated script to change page encoding after page has been downloaded in Google Chrome
guys!
My Chrome doesn't properly recognize page encoding of our local TWIKI site.
So, every time i enter the site i have to set suitable encoding manually (Settings -> Tools -> Encoding -> Cyrillic ...
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opendir and readdir encoding strings behind my back?
(You can skip the details to the last couple of lines if you're able to answer the question :) )
I'm on an Ubuntu 12.04. I'm trying to resolve an old issue that I've posted about in the past (if ...
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how to display chinese character in BASH shell
I need to launch a binary in bash and the output of the binary consist of some Chinese character. so my question is how to let bash display Chinese character correctly. by the way,
I use Centos.
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How do I change the character set of an excel file?
I have an excel file that I need to change to UTF-16. is this possible?
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What is this '°͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌' strange character?
I saw this °͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌ strange character online. I also noted that:
It needs 26 backspaces to delete but behaves like one character when selecting.
It is drawn vertically covering ...
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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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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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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 ...
