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For discussions about UCS Transformation Format with 8 bits (UTF8). It is an encoding table that represents all characters in the Unicode character set.

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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 ...
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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. ...
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Commandline tool to convert between text formats [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Batch-convert files for encoding or line ending Since I often work with source code and LaTeX documents written either on Windows, Linux and OS X I was looking for a simple ...
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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 file to ...
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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 -- ...
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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 ?
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Free ANSI to UTF8 Multiple Files converter [duplicate]

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 files ...
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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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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 ...
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How to set Notepad2 to use UTF-8 instead of ANSI

Each time I create a new file in Notepad2, the encoding is ANSI (1252). I'd like instead to have UTF-8 as default. Is there a way to get this ?
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Batch change encoding ascii files from utf-8 to iso-8859-1 [duplicate]

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, convert ...
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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. ...
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App to convert from ANSI to UTF8 on windows [duplicate]

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. I am ...
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How do I connect from a utf-8 client to a latin1 server over ssh?

I have a fresh Ubuntu install and I want to connect over ssh in a gnome-terminal. The server uses latin1 (All files etc. are latin1), so I want to use that in the session. I have changed the charset ...
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What's the code page of UTF-8?

My command prompt's default code page is 936. I need to change it to UTF-8. chcp 65001 The above doesn't work. What's the correct one?
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How to use UTF-8 in vim on Mac OS X?

I want to edit UTF-8 documents with vim (7.2 installed via MacPorts, big feautre set, iconv support enabled, multi-byte support enabled) on Mac OS X 10.4 within terminal.app. Terminal.app is ...
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How can I convert multiple files to UTF-8 encoding using *nix command line tools? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Batch-convert files for encoding or line ending I have a bunch of text files that I'd like to convert from any given charset to UTF-8 encoding. Are there any command line ...
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Unicode, Unicode Big Endian or UTF-8? What is the difference? Which format is better?

When I try to save a text file with non-English text in Notepad, I get an option to choose between Unicode, Unicode Big Endian and UTF-8. What is the difference between these formats? Assuming I do ...
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