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Encoding and Servlet API: setContentType or setCharacterEncoding

September 22, 2023 by Tarik

The javadoc is pretty clear about the difference: void setCharacterEncoding(String charset) Sets the character encoding (MIME charset) of the response being sent to the client, for example, to UTF-8. If the character encoding has already been set by setContentType(java.lang.String) or setLocale(java.util.Locale), this method overrides it. Calling setContentType(java.lang.String) with the String of text/html and calling this … Read more

How to download any(!) webpage with correct charset in python?

September 19, 2023 by Tarik

When you download a file with urllib or urllib2, you can find out whether a charset header was transmitted: fp = urllib2.urlopen(request) charset = fp.headers.getparam(‘charset’) You can use BeautifulSoup to locate a meta element in the HTML: soup = BeatifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(data) meta = soup.findAll(‘meta’, {‘http-equiv’:lambda v:v.lower()==’content-type’}) If neither is available, browsers typically fall back to user … Read more

What is the following Unicode string \xe9?

September 19, 2023 by Tarik

The unicode string for \xe9 is an accented e – é \xe9 is an encoded string. u’\xe9′ is a Unicode string that contains the unicode character U+00E9 (LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE). References: From this link. Check this link also. Adding one more link Hope you find it useful.

How to convert ‘u00e9’ into a utf8 char, in mysql or php?

September 19, 2023 by Tarik

Where do I set character encoding in SOAPUI Preferences

September 17, 2023 by Tarik

To set up an encoding for request/response you have to mark it in Navigator. Then in the view under the navigator go to “Request/Response properties” choose encoding and set i.e. to UTF-8 or iso-8859-1.

How does UTF-8 encoding identify single byte and double byte characters?

September 16, 2023 by Tarik

For example, “Aݔ” is stored as “410754” That’s not how UTF-8 works. Characters U+0000 through U+007F (aka ASCII) are stored as single bytes. They are the only characters whose codepoints numerically match their UTF-8 presentation. For example, U+0041 becomes 0x41 which is 01000001 in binary. All other characters are represented with multiple bytes. U+0080 through … Read more

HTML5: which is better – using a character entity vs using a character directly?

September 13, 2023 by Tarik

If the encoding is UTF-8, the normal characters will work fine, and there is no reason not to use them. Browsers that don’t support UTF-8 will have lots of other issues while displaying a modern webpage, so don’t worry about that. So it is easier and more readable to use the characters and I would … Read more

Is the “charset” attribute required with HTML5?

September 12, 2023 by Tarik

It is not necessary to include <meta charset=”blah”>. As the specification says, the character set may also be specified by the server using the HTTP Content-Type header or by including a Unicode BOM at the beginning of the downloaded file. Most web servers today will send back a character set in the Content-Type header for … Read more

Setting the PHP default encoding to UTF-8

September 9, 2023 by Tarik

How do I use MultiByteToWideChar?

September 8, 2023 by Tarik

You must call MultiByteToWideChar twice: The first call to MultiByteToWideChar is used to find the buffer size you need for the wide string. Look at Microsoft’s documentation; it states: If the function succeeds and cchWideChar is 0, the return value is the required size, in characters, for the buffer indicated by lpWideCharStr. Thus, to make … Read more