For discussions about UCS Transformation Format with 8 bits(UTF8). It is a encoding table that represent all characters in the Unicode character set.
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ssh backspace deletes one character instead of two (utf-8 symbols)
Im accessing a remote computer using ssh and running a bash command to input symbols using standard input stream:
read test;echo $test
It's ok to input english letters and use backspace 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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How can I get zsh to display international characters properly?
I just started using zsh, and love it. However, I've stumbled upon an annoyance when it comes to international characters:
➜ ~ touch åäö.txt
➜ ~ ls
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How does excel manage to correctly decode this file contents?
I start with an excel file with the contents in each row:
TEST
çığ
öğö
çüş
Then I export this file as a CSV file and save it as ANSI format (which from what I have read is same as US-ASCII). When I ...
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Program to check/look up UTF-8/Unicode characters in string on command line?
I've just realized I have a file on my system; it lists normally:
$ ls -la TΕSТER.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 8 2013-04-11 18:07 TΕSТER.txt
$ cat TΕSТER.txt
testing
... yet, it crashes a piece of ...
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Notepad++ inserting special Unicode characters in UTF-8
What's the best ways to enter special Unicode characters into a Notepad++ document? Do I have to rely on the operating system (Windows)?
Looking for a see-and-click solution.
I can bring up the ...
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Mime format message
How to read mime encoded files? We have converted .msg file to .mhtml for better reading without MS Outlook. But we cannot read encoded text in bounced mails. message is as
Content-Type: text/html; ...
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Changing the format of cells
I have an Excel worksheet where one of the cells has the string "\xab\xcd\xef" etc. It seems as if Excel is taking this as the ASCII string "\xab\xcd\xef". How do I make Excel treat it as a binary ...
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Convert ANSI text file(s) to UTF8 on Windows command line
I would like to convert (an) ANSI-encoded text file(s) (Win 1252) to UTF8 without BOM, ideally via a command-line call. My use-case: I export .tex files from Stata which I want to compile with ...
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Changing the default ANSI to UTF-8 in Notepad
I got an e-book reader a few months ago, and I finally figured out why it doesn't display .txt files correctly. It doesn't like ANSI. It has no problem with the other 3 types of coding notepad ...
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7za.exe 9.20 cannot create archive with non english letters filename (utf-8)
I'm struggling to have 7za.exe create an archive including non latin characters.
The encoding is utf-8, characters are cyrillic.
I have a folder with the 4 files:
7za.exe privet.txt Кириллица.txt ...
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Excel csv encoding default
Ok here's the deal
I exported a csv in UTF-16 format via PHP and open it in excel...All the encoding works perfectly.
My question is, suppose I edit this csv and then just hit save in excel and ...
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utf-8 characters in emacs (only in term/ansi-term/multi-term) do not appear
I cannot for the life of me get utf-8 characters to appear correctly in emacs term mode on osx. They either appear as empty spaces or "<00e3><0081><00af>". I can view them in text buffers ...
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Fix encoding of German umlauts in directories and filenames (ü = u╠ê and so on)
I have many zip-files where there are encoding errors for the German umlauts (äüöÄÜÖß). They show up in both the filename.zip as well as in the included directories and files like this:
Fünf = ...
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tmux: trying to bind utf8 key
I'm using tmux 1.6 with konsole on Fedora 17 i686.
I have an azerty keyboard (with accentued chars), and I want ton bind 'ù' key.
I made the following ~/.tmux.conf:
setw -g utf8 on
bind-key ù ...
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UTF-8 locale portability (and ssh)
I spend a lot of my time sshed into various machines, all of which are different (some are embedded, some run Linux, some run BSD, &c.). On my own local machines, however, i use OS X, which of ...
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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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file-name encoding problems
I googled over this topic but couldn't find what I was looking for... the following "happend" to me:
I had my files stored on a NTFS-USB Harddisk, because of space problems I moved them to an ext3 ...
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Unadvisable to use UTF-8 for mails?
Thunderbird (in German) uses the charset ISO-8859-15 (or -1, can't check right now) by default for outgoing and incoming mails. (If you want to change the default, see Change Thunderbird default ...
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How to use Putty in Japanese?
I am trying to use Putty to connect to a Linux server that has a file system that contains unicode characters (specifically Japanese)
My goal is to make it work the way it worked on Mac OS X Terminal ...
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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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What locale does VIM use for sorting and regular expressions?
Suppose I have a file with the following content:
c
C
b
B
a
A
When I do :%sort, I get the following result:
A
B
C
a
b
c
When I do :%!sort (note the '!'), I get
a
A
b
B
c
C
I get the same ...
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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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Is there any way to import utf-8 characters into Outlook contacts?
So, I've tried csv and tab delimited txt formats. I've tried to import vcf files, and no luck. Whatever I do, non latin1 characters are misinterpreted in Outlook.
I'm writing a PHP script that can ...
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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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I'm exporting contacts from Outlook 2007 to CSV file and getting question marks instead of characters
I need to create a CSV file that includes my Outlook 2007 contacts.
The contacts include English and Hebrew (UTF-8) characters as well.
When I export the contacts into a CSV file (Windows - with ...
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How can I input utf-8 symbols in telnet client on OS X?
I am using OSX 10.6.8 and telnet via terminal. I can input russian (utf8) symbols in terminal, but when i use telnet, i can see russian symbols, but cannot input them (instead of "тест" i get ...
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Unix tool to output first n characters in an UTF-8 encoded file
I want to print the first 1000 characters in an UTF-8 encoded file. I know that the head tool can print the first n bytes of a file, but it may cut a character in the middle so that I get garbled ...
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Set up Putty and Server to only use UTF-8
I am trying to only use UTF-8 for anything (Client on Win7 64 bit, servers Debian 64bit, su rights for everything). On Stackoverflow I can find many solutions to fix vim for UTF-8 handling. I also ...
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What's wrong with `(add-to-list 'process-coding-system-alist '(“zsh” . utf-8))`?
In Emacs, I routinely use an inferior shell, invoked with M-x shell. I often need to specifically set its coding system, which I do with C-x RET p followed by utf-8 (twice).
I want to do this once ...
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How to find all files in directory that contain UTF-8 BOM (byte-order mark)?
On Windows, I need to find all files in a directory that contain UTF-8 BOM (byte-order mark). Which tool can do that and how?
It can be a PowerShell script, some text editor's advanced search feature ...
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How to get Aptana Studio 3 to save in UTF-8?
I'm using Aptana Studio 3 (build: 3.0.9.201202141038).
When I check to see if my file is being written in UTF-8, it shows that it is:
But when I create a file and save it, and look at it in ...
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Obtaining a list of words from a GNU aspell dictionary
I downloaded the aspell package for Bengali language dictionary support. From the tarball, I was able to isolate the bn.wl file, which is simply a list of about 100,000 words, one on each line.
The ...
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How to make emacs accept UTF-8 from the keyboard
My friends have persuaded me to "try again" (about the 5th time in about 12 years) with emacs. I'm currently suffering a little, and need help with emacs + utf-8.
I'm running the 23.3.1 emacs gui on ...
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Can't open folders in Linux nerdtree vim
I can't open folders in nerdtree vim. It won't open the folders, and these funky symbols are being displayed:
Does anyone have a clue about how to get this working?
I'm running UTF-8.
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How can I get a mysqldump file encoded in utf-8 for psql?
I am migrating some data from a MySql database (v5.1.44/MyISAM/collation=latin1_swedish_ci) to a PostgreSQL (v9.0.4/the one included in OSX Lion).
I'm using
$ mysqldump --compatible=postgresql > ...
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How do I find out which language some Unicode characters belong to?
On Facebook, there are currently messages floating around with these strange chars:
ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้
They are used to confuse the reader, because ...
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How to make UltraEdit save in UTF-8 without the byte order mark (BOM)?
This related post tells me that UltraEdit adds the byte order mark when UTF-8-encoding files.
How can I make UltraEdit convert a file into UTF-8 without adding the byte order mark?
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What causes 3 special characters after conversion to UTF-8?
One of our work steps involves saving an MS Excel worksheet as CSV and then using UltraEdit to convert the CSV to UTF-8 before importing it into a server system.
The problem is that, after the ...
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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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Import CSV - file origin missing a UTF8 entry
Excel 2008 for OSX seems to be missing a UTF8 import
No matter which I choose I get garbage for diacritics
the file is showing fine in TextWrangler which reports it is in UTF-8
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Windows 7 and UTF-8 saving and display in programs
I just got a new system, Windows 7 Home Premium, installed Notepad++ and used it for a few days. I wrote some html/php files in Chinese, saved as UTF-8 without BOM. Uploaded to server and tested, all ...
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How to import (and view correctly) Chinese UTF-8 encoded CSV file with Excel 2011 on Mac OS X
I have a CSV file which I can open and view the column with Chinese letters normally with TextMate.
However, when I try to import this file into Excel 2011, the field comes with unreadable fonts. ...
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Exporting UTF-8 text from LibreOffice without byte order mark
In LibreOffice, if I save a document as file type "encoded text" and select "Unicode (UTF-8)" as the encoding, it always writes a byte order mark (BOM) at the start of the text. It does this even when ...
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utf8 torrent files
I have a CinemaGo HD media player, that has a built-in torrent client (I guess it is bit-torrent). But I am unable to download some torrent files because they are not in utf-8 format (you can see it ...
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GNU Dialog and UTF-8 characters
I'm using GNU dialog in one of my lengthy shell scripts. One of the areas I've got problems with is when I'm asking for an inputBox where the user can type a book's title, mostly in French.
In this ...
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UTF-8 Not Working in PuTTY when using SSH Remote command
So. I am using PuTTY to connect to a remote server that has an irssi client running for me constantly through tmux.
Connecting to the server, and typing "tmux attach" works fine and everything works ...
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Which (default) fonts contain the Windows/Apple logo?
I'm looking for fonts which are installed on Windows respectively Apple by default which contain either the Windows or Apple-logo .
According to this article it should be character
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How to Make Scite Display Chinese
Basically not just chinese characters.
I want scite to be able to display anything, japanese, korean, chinese. Anything. I can display that with notepad. Why I can't display that with scite?
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Firefox 5/6 (XPsp3) shows UTF8 inconsistensies in Wiktionary
The following 2 pages are UTF8 encoded.
If I go to http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ahem
in the left language column I see for the Malaysian page only square "you do not have this font installed" ...
