The utf8 tag has no wiki summary.
2
votes
0answers
29 views
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 ...
1
vote
1answer
47 views
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 ...
0
votes
1answer
113 views
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 ...
1
vote
1answer
29 views
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 ...
4
votes
1answer
126 views
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 ...
0
votes
1answer
84 views
Cant open folder in Linux nerdtree vim
cant open folder in nerdtree vim, it wont open the folders and these funky symbols is displaying
anyone got a clue how to get this working..
im running utf8
1
vote
4answers
1k views
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 ...
2
votes
2answers
314 views
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?
6
votes
1answer
175 views
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 ...
1
vote
1answer
178 views
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 ...
0
votes
1answer
121 views
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
0
votes
0answers
419 views
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 ...
2
votes
0answers
41 views
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 ...
0
votes
1answer
217 views
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 ...
2
votes
2answers
251 views
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
...
0
votes
1answer
108 views
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?
1
vote
1answer
72 views
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" ...
4
votes
2answers
203 views
How do I get excel to not mess around with the formatting of a .csv file
I have two issues with a csv file that occur when I try and edit it in Excel.
I have an ISBN column that gets reformatted to scientific format every time I save the file
The encoding for the file is ...
1
vote
1answer
336 views
Broken UTF-8 display in XFCE terminal after upgrade to 4.8
After a recent archlinux upgrade via pacman -Suy I lost UTF-8 display in terminals under xorg. This affects lxterminal, XFCE's terminal, and kde's konsole. I use XFCE 4.6 as window manager.
In my ...
4
votes
1answer
1k views
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 ...
5
votes
1answer
486 views
Change Thunderbird default encoding?
Whenever I compose a new email message in Thunderbird, it defaults to the Western (ISO-8859-1) encoding, and I have to manually change it to UTF-8 every time.
How do I change the default?
1
vote
1answer
196 views
How to correct unicode filenames?
I have Windows 7 with NTFS filesystem. I have filenames and directory names like:
Kispál és a Borz - 02 - Tökéletes Helyettes
I want to transform them to:
Kispál és a Borz - 02 - Tökéletes ...
2
votes
1answer
220 views
powershell import-csv mangles diacritical characters
I am trying to create users in AD (2003 server R2) from a CSVfile using PowerShell (v2)
when I use import-csv the resulting data gets mangled when names have diacritical characters in them.
Jerónimo ...
1
vote
1answer
606 views
Can I set up KiTTY to send F7 press instead of bringing up Print dialogue when F7 button is pressed?
Can I set up KiTTY to send F7 press instead of bringing up Print dialogue when I press F7?
I make intense use of Midnight Commander and its editor, which both rely on F7 (to create a directory and to ...
1
vote
2answers
717 views
Utility for converting Shift-JIS encoded files to UTF-8 encoded files
My client has a ton of Japanese text files which are encoded in Shift-JIS.
They need a utility which can convert these files to UTF-8.
Ideally, the tool would offer both command-line and interactive ...
2
votes
1answer
381 views
How can I use UTF-8 on Linux from Windows 7 via PuTTY?
I use PuTTY on Windows 7 to access a Linux machine with Ubuntu 10.10. I think that Windows 7 is using Latin-1. But I need to use UTF-8 on the Linux machine and in a PostgreSQL database.
How can I do ...
1
vote
1answer
246 views
Can I set KiTTY default codepage to UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1?
I always use UTF-8, but KiTTY always resets to ISO-8859-1 for new sessions, so I have to configure this every time. Can this be altered?
0
votes
3answers
689 views
Hebrew (utf8) characters in windows cmd console
I previously asked this Q:
utf8 hebrew on mysql console on debian (via putty on windows)
And managed to get it working by starting mysql with --default-character-set=utf8 and setting putty to show ...
7
votes
2answers
19k views
Setting UTF8 as default Character Encoding in Windows 7
is there a way to set Windows 7 to globally use UTF-8 as standard?
its really annoying to set every single text editor to use it.
2
votes
1answer
166 views
UTF-8 bit representation
I'm learning about UTF-8 standards and this is what I'm learning :
Definition and bytes used
UTF-8 binary representation Meaning
0xxxxxxx 1 byte for 1 à 7 bits ...
6
votes
3answers
240 views
In utf-8 collation, why 11- is less then 1-?
I found that the sort result in ASCII:
Source file test:
1-
11-
1-a
11-a
Sort using ASCII:
$ LANG=en_US.ascii sort test
1-
1-a
11-
11-a
And using UTF-8:
$ LANG=en_US.utf8 sort test
1-
11-
...
5
votes
2answers
8k views
Windows 7 UTF-8 and Unicode
Hi: Could someone please explain what has changed in Windows 7 (Pro 64-bit)?
Details:
Previously I had Windows XP and had some translations files (UTF-8 encoded) in CSV format. I was able to view the ...
1
vote
1answer
158 views
My computer isn't loading my massive Excel file…are there any tricks?
I have an 11,000 row Excel file (in Japanese) that I have saved as an xlsx file. I need it to be saved in UTF-8 format, so I went in and tested a few rows in OpenOffice (the reason for this apparent ...
2
votes
2answers
2k views
gVim utf-8 in windows
When I open gVim it's localized to Sweidish, which is fine. But warning/error messages that has Swedish characters in them don't display correctly. When trying to delete a buffer with unsaved changes ...
5
votes
3answers
913 views
Problem with SVN filename encoding on Mac OS X
I have some filename with some Unicode character in it. All filenames on Mac OS X are UTF8 encoded. Also $LANG is set to en_US.UTF-8.
However, it seems svn has some problems with that:
az@ip212 1054 ...
2
votes
1answer
473 views
insert character code into Linux text editor
I need a lightweight GUI text editor on my Ubuntu Lucid system which lets me specify a Unicode code point (e.g. U+1234), and inserts that character to a UTF-8 text document. I know that gedit can't do ...
2
votes
1answer
81 views
MIME Formatting issue
I have a question regarding MIME formatting and emails. Every now and again I get this kind of message come through. What could be causing it and what possible fix could I implement? The client is ...
1
vote
2answers
1k views
On Windows 7, dir or tree can't show unicode characters, even starting cmd with cmd /U
On Windows 7, dir or tree can't show unicode characters, even starting cmd with cmd /U
So I would press Window Key + R to run something, and type in cmd /U so that the content might handle Unicode.
...
1
vote
0answers
290 views
Commandline tool to convert between text formats? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Batch-convert files for encoding or line ending
Hello, since I often work with sourcecodes and latex documents written either on windows, linux and osx I was looking for ...
0
votes
0answers
489 views
Need a simple program to convert to utf-8 [closed]
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 ...
1
vote
1answer
444 views
Problem with unpacking zip archive with UTF-8 file names in OS X if zip was made in Windows
I have packed my files in Windows 7 using Total Commander asking to use UTF-8 for file names. Then I tried to unpack my files in OS X, but Cyrillic names were messed. I have tried most programs -- ...
2
votes
1answer
2k views
How to find out the character set of a text file
Is the a tool (mac or online) that can help me to find out the character set of a text file, and then convert it to utf-8 ?
0
votes
3answers
3k views
How to recode to UTF-8 conditionally?
I'm unifying the encoding of a large bunch of text files, gathered over time on different computers. I'm mainly going from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8. This nicely converts one file:
recode ISO-8859-1..UTF-8 ...
4
votes
7answers
4k views
Extract large zip file (50 GB) on Mac OS X
I was trying to move the files to another hard drive. So I archived all my photos in one large ZIP file using the Mac OS X built-in compress function.
But the file failed to extract. I've tried ...
0
votes
1answer
2k views
Free ANSI to UTF8 Multiple Files converter [closed]
Possible Duplicates:
Batch-convert files for encoding or line ending under Windows
App to convert from ANSI to UTF8 on windows
Hi,
currently i'm in need of a way to convert loads of .txt ...
4
votes
3answers
649 views
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 ...
1
vote
1answer
373 views
Unable to convert file to UTF-8
I am on Windows XP sp3 and I am trying to convert a file from ASCII to UTF-8.
I use notepad++ to do this. I go to Encoding > Convert to UTF-8 without BOM.
I save the file, reopen and it is still on ...
2
votes
3answers
9k views
Batch change encoding ascii files from utf-8 to iso-8859-1 [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Batch-convert files for encoding or line ending under Windows
I need a tool like this
http://www.rotatingscrew.com/utfcast.aspx
But the tool should do the opposite, ...
2
votes
5answers
4k views
Dreamweaver reverts to western encoding after its been changed to UTF8
I'm using Dreamweaver CS3, and when I built an application I forgot to ensure that the encoding was set to UTF8.
I went through all my files and changed the encoding from western european to UTF8. ...
5
votes
3answers
13k views
App to convert from ANSI to UTF8 on windows [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Batch-convert files for encoding or line ending under Windows
Hey!
I have many files that are encoded in the ANSI (iso-8859-1) format and I want to change it to utf8.
...
