The Unicode Standard Version 8.0, Appendix C states: UCS-4 stands for “Universal Character Set coded in 4 octets.” It is now treated simply as a synonym for UTF-32, and is considered the canonical form for representation of characters in ISO 10646 (Universal Coded Character Set).
A quick look at the PDF specification seems to suggest that you can have different encoding inside a PDF-file. Have a look at page 86. So a PDF library with some kind of low level access should be able to provide you with encoding used for a string. But if you just want the text … Read more
You can use <C-v>U, that is, an uppercase u, to input an 8 digit hex codepoint character. More information here and here.
bytes and bytearray are similar… Python 3’s bytes and bytearray classes both hold arrays of bytes, where each byte can take on a value between 0 and 255. The primary difference is that a bytes object is immutable, meaning that once created, you cannot modify its elements. By contrast, a bytearray object allows you to … Read more
Unicode is taking over and has already surpassed all others. I suggest you hop on the train right now. Note that there are several flavors of unicode. Joel Spolsky gives an overview. (Graph current as of Feb. 2012, see comment below for more exact values.)
There is no Unicode character that can be stored in one encoding but not another. This is simply because the valid Unicode characters have been restricted to what can be stored in UTF-16 (which has the smallest capacity of the three encodings). In other words, UTF-8 and and UTF-32 could be used to represent a … Read more
You can try to edit the settings of your webview before you load the data: WebSettings settings = mWebView.getSettings(); settings.setDefaultTextEncodingName(“utf-8”); Also, as provided in the comment below, be sure to add “charset=utf-8” to the loadData call: mWebView.loadData(getString(R.string.info_texto), “text/html; charset=utf-8”, “utf-8”);
When Windows NT was designed UTF-16 didn’t exist (NT 3.51 was born in 1993, while UTF-16 was born in 1996 with the Unicode 2.0 standard); there was instead UCS-2, which, at that time, was enough to hold every character available in Unicode, so the 1 code point = 1 code unit equivalence was actually true … Read more
You can easily remove them using vim, here are the steps: 1) In your terminal, open the file using vim: vim file_name 2) Remove all BOM characters: :set nobomb 3) Save the file: :wq