Machine code and binary are the same – a number system with base 2 – either a 1 or 0. But machine code can also be expressed in hex-format (hexadecimal) – a number system with base 16. The binary system and hex are very interrelated with each other, its easy to convert from binary to … Read more
see capture file below for a detailed explanation. Hope this helps (if still relevant)…
I was originally using some VBScript code from Antonin Foller: Base64 Encode VBS Function and Base64 Decode VBS Function. Searching Antonin’s site, I saw he had some code for quoted printable encoding, using the CDO.Message object, so I tried that. Finally, I ported the code mentioned in Mark’s answer to VBScript (also used some code … Read more
This really depends on the nature of the binary data, and the constraints that “text” places on your output. First off, if your binary data is not compressed, try compressing before encoding. We can then assume that the distribution of 1/0 or individual bytes is more or less random. Now: why do you need text? … Read more
Since Spring Boot 1.4.2 registering your own CharacterEncodingFilter will work ONLY IF you disable Spring’s own instance of this bean by setting spring.http.encoding.enabled=false in the application.properties. However, one can resolve this matter without any Filter instantiation by adding these setting to the application.properties: # Charset of HTTP requests and responses. Added to the “Content-Type” header … Read more
Don’t HTML-encode your characters before storage. You should store as pure a form of your data as possible. HTML encoding is needed because you are going to display the data on an HTML page, so do the encoding during the processing of the data to create the page. For example, suppose you decide you’re also … Read more
When I had the black squares issue I was able to solve it without installing X11 by installing the urw-fonts package.
A ‘character set’ is just what it says: a properly-specified list of distinct characters. An ‘encoding’ is a mapping between a character set (typically Unicode today) and a (usually byte-based) technical representation of the characters. UTF-8 is an encoding, but not a character set. It is an encoding of the Unicode character set(*). The confusion … Read more
In Notepad++ 5.9 there is an option in Settings -> Preferences -> New Document/Default Directory to automatically convert ANSI files to UTF-8 without BOM on open
I’d like to answer this in a more web-like manner and in order to answer it so we need a little history. Joel Spolsky has written a very good introductionary article on the absolute minimum every dev should know on Unicode Character Encoding. Bear with me here because this is going to be somewhat of … Read more