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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Loading a chinese encoding file in vim, conversion errors
I can view http://hosting2.phor.net/~bolomi/ and save this to a file. In Chrome, I can view source and see the title of the page is 波羅蜜. If I open the saved file in vim to edit, I see question marks ...
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What exactly happens when you change the character encoding of a webpage?
I loaded www.google.hk
and then changed the character encoding to Greek
and got this
What exactly did the browser do when I changed the character encoding?
It looks like translation but I ...
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Determining the encoding of a file on Mac OS X?
How can determine the character encoding of plain text files (such as html) on Mac OS X?
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Need a simple program to convert to utf-8 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
App to convert from ANSI to UTF8 on windows
Batch-convert files for encoding or line ending under Windows
I need to find a program to convert a Windows-1250 encoded ...
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Firefox Garbled Text
In FF 3.5.7 on Vista I am getting garbled text like below on some web pages.
The obvious answer is to go to View > Character Encodings > then select UTF-8.
However, it turns out I am already using ...
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Encoding # in FTP user/password within URL
I am trying to access a password-protected ftp site. I have user "foo" pass "pass#1"
When I enter them directly, it works.
I am now trying to craft a single URL that contains the user/pass within ...
