How to make php display \t \n as tab and new line instead of characters [closed]
put it in double quotes echo “\t”; See: http://php.net/language.types.string#language.types.string.syntax.double
character-encoding
Download BLOB content using specified charset
I found the solution before to post. The change of charset has not been resolved, in fact. However, I sent the UTF-8 header for the download process and Excel was able to understand the file format correctly. Thanks to this response of Erik Töyrä. blob = new Blob([“\ufeff”, csv_content]);
What is the default JavaScript character encoding?
Section 8.4 of E262: The String type is the set of all finite ordered sequences of zero or more 16-bit unsigned integer values (“elements”). The String type is generally used to represent textual data in a running ECMAScript program, in which case each element in the String is treated as a code unit value (see … Read more
Is it necessary to use — and – in XHTML or HTML5?
The W3C released an official response about when to use and when not to use character escapes which you can find here. As they are also the group that is in charge of the HTML specification, I think it’s best to follow their advice. From the section “When to Use Escapes” Syntax characters. There are … Read more
What is this INSANE space character??? (google chrome)
When I view this page’s source in Internet Explorer, or download it directly from the server and view it in a text editor, the first space character in question is formatted like this in the actual HTML: THIS character right here… " " Notice the   entity. That is Unicode codepoint U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE. Chrome is … Read more
What is the exact difference between Windows-1252 and ISO-8859-1?
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
How to set encoding in .getJSON jQuery
If you want to use $.getJSON() you can add the following before the call : $.ajaxSetup({ scriptCharset: “utf-8”, contentType: “application/json; charset=utf-8” }); You can use the charset you want instead of utf-8. The options are explained here. contentType : When sending data to the server, use this content-type. Default is application/x-www-form-urlencoded, which is fine for … Read more
Character Encoding Detection Algorithm
Years ago we had character set detection for a mail application, and we rolled our own. The mail app was actually a WAP application, and the phone expected UTF-8. There were several steps: Universal We could easily detect if text was UTF-8, as there is a specific bit pattern in the top bits of bytes … Read more
How do you map-replace characters in Javascript similar to the ‘tr’ function in Perl?
There isn’t a built-in equivalent, but you can get close to one with replace: data = data.replace(/[\-_]/g, function (m) { return { ‘-‘: ‘+’, ‘_’: “https://stackoverflow.com/” }[m]; });
How can I be sure of the file encoding?
$ file –mime my.txt my.txt: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1