So what’s the problem, It’s a ’ (RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK – U+2019) character which is being decoded as CP-1252 instead of UTF-8. If you check the encodings table, then you see that this character is in UTF-8 composed of bytes 0xE2, 0x80 and 0x99. If you check the CP-1252 code page layout, then you’ll … Read more
Basically: charset is the set of characters you can use encoding is the way these characters are stored into memory
Using .NET’s UTF8Encoding class and passing $False to the constructor seems to work: $MyRawString = Get-Content -Raw $MyPath $Utf8NoBomEncoding = New-Object System.Text.UTF8Encoding $False [System.IO.File]::WriteAllLines($MyPath, $MyRawString, $Utf8NoBomEncoding)
Since this thread is a popular result in google search, here is the way to do it for sublime text 3 build 3059+: in user preferences, add the line: “show_encoding”: true
Q Does a base64 string always end with =? A: No. (the word usb is base64 encoded into dXNi) Q Why does an = get appended at the end? A: As a short answer: The last character (= sign) is added only as a complement (padding) in the final process of encoding a message with … Read more
When you have some binary data that you want to ship across a network, you generally don’t do it by just streaming the bits and bytes over the wire in a raw format. Why? because some media are made for streaming text. You never know — some protocols may interpret your binary data as control … Read more