What is the encoding of Chinese characters on Wikipedia?
>>> c=”\xe7\x9a\x84″.decode(‘utf8′) >>> c u’\u7684’ >>> print c ็ though Unicode encodes it in 16 bits, utf8 breaks it down to 3 bytes.
url-encoding
Do ampersands still need to be encoded in URLs in HTML5?
It is true that one of the differences between HTML5 and HTML4, quoted from the W3C Differences Page, is: The ampersand (&) may be left unescaped in more cases compared to HTML4. In fact, the HTML5 spec goes to great lengths describing actual algorithms that determine what it means to consume (and interpret) characters. In … Read more
When should an asterisk be encoded in an HTTP URL?
##Short answer The current definition of URL syntax indicates that you never need to percent-encode the asterisk character in the path, query, or fragment components of a URL. HTTP 1.1 As @Riley Major pointed out, the RFC that HTTP 1.1 references for URL syntax has been obsoleted by RFC3986, which isn’t as black and white … Read more
Why is the return value of String.addingPercentEncoding() optional?
I filed a bug report with Apple about this, and heard back โ with a very helpful response, no less! Turns out (much to my surprise) that itโs possible to successfully create Swift strings that contain invalid Unicode in the form of unpaired UTF-16 surrogate chars. Such a string can cause UTF-8 encoding to fail. … Read more
How to decode url-encoded string in javascript
That is not UTF-8, that is percent encoding also known as url encoding. You can use decodeURIComponent() to convert it back before displaying it $(“#quote1 span”).html(decodeURIComponent(text1));
How to URL encode periods?
This is a really old question, but I ran into this searching for a similar problem. I stuck a “https://stackoverflow.com/” onto the end of my url’s with periods in them and it got around the problem.
URL encoding on Django Template
Instead of {{ title }} do {{title|urlencode}}
How do you unescape URLs in Java?
This is not unescaped XML, this is URL encoded text. Looks to me like you want to use the following on the URL strings. URLDecoder.decode(url); This will give you the correct text. The result of decoding the like you provided is this. http://cliveg.bu.edu/people/sganguly/player/ Rang De Basanti – Tu Bin Bataye.mp3 The %20 is an escaped … Read more
GETting a URL with an url-encoded slash
This is a terrible hack, bound to be incompatible with future versions of the framework and so on. But it works! (on my machine…) Uri uri = new Uri(“http://example.com/%2F”); ForceCanonicalPathAndQuery(uri); using (WebClient webClient = new WebClient()) { webClient.DownloadData(uri); } void ForceCanonicalPathAndQuery(Uri uri){ string paq = uri.PathAndQuery; // need to access PathAndQuery FieldInfo flagsFieldInfo = typeof(Uri).GetField(“m_Flags”, … Read more
How to encode URL to avoid special characters in Java? [duplicate]
URL construction is tricky because different parts of the URL have different rules for what characters are allowed: for example, the plus sign is reserved in the query component of a URL because it represents a space, but in the path component of the URL, a plus sign has no special meaning and spaces are … Read more