Two years late, but here we go: The short answer is yes, unique binary/hex values will always encode to a unique base64 encoded string. BUT, multiple base64 encoded strings may represent a single binary/hex value. This is because hex bytes are not aligned with base64 ‘digits’. A single hex byte is represented by 8 bits … Read more
One hex character can only represent 16 different values, i.e. 4 bits. (16 = 24) 40 × 4 = 160. And no, you need much more than 5 characters in base-36. There are totally 2160 different SHA-1 hashes. 2160 = 1640, so this is another reason why we need 40 hex digits. But 2160 = … Read more
As suggested here: Get-Content tmp.log | Out-File -Encoding UTF8 new.log
iconv -f WINDOWS-1252 -t UTF-8 filename.txt
ASCII is fundamental Originally 1 character was always stored as 1 byte. A byte (8 bits) has the potential to distinct 256 possible values. But in fact only the first 7 bits were used. So only 128 characters were defined. This set is known as the ASCII character set. 0x00 – 0x1F contain steering codes … Read more
Simple enable ssl proxying on right click for specific url:
Serializing is about moving structured data over a storage/transmission medium in a way that the structure can be maintained. Encoding is more broad, like about how said data is converted to different forms, etc. Perhaps you could think about serializing being a subset of encoding in this example. With regard to a web service, you … Read more
Follow these steps with Notepad++ 1- Copy the original text 2- In Notepad++, open new file, change Encoding -> pick an encoding you think the original text follows. Try as well the encoding “ANSI” as sometimes Unicode files are read as ANSI by certain programs 3- Paste 4- Then to convert to Unicode by going … Read more
It’s ASCII. All occurrences of the four characters \xST are converted to 1 character, whose ASCII code is ST (in hexadecimal), where S and T are any of 0123456789abcdefABCDEF.
=C2=A0 represents the bytes C2 A0. Since this is UTF-8, it translates to U+00A0, which is the Unicode for non-breaking space. See UTF-8 (Wikipedia).