Deal exclusively with unicode objects as much as possible by decoding things to unicode objects when you first get them and encoding them as necessary on the way out. If your string is actually a unicode object, you’ll need to convert it to a unicode-encoded string object before writing it to a file: foo = … Read more
ANSI encoding is a slightly generic term used to refer to the standard code page on a system, usually Windows. It is more properly referred to as Windows-1252 on Western/U.S. systems. (It can represent certain other Windows code pages on other systems.) This is essentially an extension of the ASCII character set in that it … Read more
In UTF-8 it’s actually 6 digits (or 3 bytes). $ printf ‘\xE2\x98\xA0′ ☠ To check how it’s encoded by the console, use hexdump: $ printf ☠ | hexdump 0000000 98e2 00a0 0000003
Vertical tab was used to speed up printer vertical movement. Some printers used special tab belts with various tab spots. This helped align content on forms. VT to header space, fill in header, VT to body area, fill in lines, VT to form footer. Generally it was coded in the program as a character constant. … Read more
Convert from String to byte[]: String s = “some text here”; byte[] b = s.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8); Convert from byte[] to String: byte[] b = {(byte) 99, (byte)97, (byte)116}; String s = new String(b, StandardCharsets.US_ASCII); You should, of course, use the correct encoding name. My examples used US-ASCII and UTF-8, two commonly-used encodings.
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If you apply utf8_encode() to an already UTF-8 string, it will return garbled UTF-8 output. I made a function that addresses all this issues. It´s called Encoding::toUTF8(). You don’t need to know what the encoding of your strings is. It can be Latin1 (ISO 8859-1), Windows-1252 or UTF-8, or the string can have a mix … Read more
As suggested by Mark Ransom, I found the right encoding for that problem. The encoding was “ISO-8859-1”, so replacing open(“u.item”, encoding=”utf-8″) with open(‘u.item’, encoding = “ISO-8859-1”) will solve the problem.
The header just denotes what the content is encoded in. It is not necessarily possible to deduce the type of the content from the content itself, i.e. you can’t necessarily just look at the content and know what to do with it. That’s what HTTP headers are for, they tell the recipient what kind of … Read more
To set the default to UTF-8, you want to add the following to my.cnf/my.ini [client] default-character-set=utf8mb4 [mysql] default-character-set=utf8mb4 [mysqld] collation-server = utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci init-connect=”SET NAMES utf8mb4″ character-set-server = utf8mb4 If you want to change the character set for an existing DB, let me know… your question didn’t specify it directly so I am not sure if … Read more