Questions tagged [text-encoding]
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Methods to increase the amount of data sent in a packet
I have been working on launching high-altitude balloons (HABs, or weather balloons) and I have been using LoRa to enable long-range communication with my balloons. It's been great and pretty reliable, ...
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Compressing EBCDIC file vs UTF8
Today I went across a weird case for which I have no explanation, so here I am.
I have two files with identical content, but one is encoded in UTF-8 and the other one is in IBM EBCDIC. Both of them ...
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Reduce number of digits by converting to alphanumeric data
We have an app that receives a web service request, processes it and sends it back to our client by another web service call. There is a unique field in the request, a tracking Id, which currently ...
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Dictionary Coding for OLAP
Let's say we have a generic table like below:
id, name, price, quantity
20 product_x 5,00 100
20 product_y 5,00 100
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What is the encoding used in Git's binary patches?
Git can generate patches/diffs for binary files as well as for text files.
I'm trying to figure out what encoding it uses for its binary patches.
Here is an example:
diff --git a/www/images/...
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Fast and simple hex compression
I'm working on a project that requires a TCP connection between a client and server. The current protocol encodes the data into hex and then sends it. However, hex increases the length of the payload ...
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Why does ISO 8859-1 contain letter-free diacritics?
ISO 8859-1 contains a few letter-free diacritics: The diaeresis (¨), the acute accent (´), the cedilla (¸) and the macron (¯).¹
Why were they included? As far as I know (please correct me if I am ...
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cross-application text formatting
I am not sure whether this question is a good fit for this site, but if it is not, please let me know and I will take it down.
If it is off-topic, some general info on where I can look for these ...
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VB.NET - Serial Key Generating (Encryption, Hashing, Encoding?) Algorithm
I am trying to create a basic licensing system where I take a unique ID from the client computer, and I get this Hexadecimal string (hyphens removed e.g. "84-18-CE-...."):
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What encoding is used by javax.xml.transform.Transformer? [closed]
Please can you answer a couple of questions based on the code below (excludes the try/catch blocks), which transforms input XML and XSL files into an output XSL-FO file:
File xslFile = new File("...
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Unable to debug an encodded javascript?
I’m having some problems debugging an encoded javacscript. This script I’m referring to given in this link over here.
The encoding here is simple and it works by shifting the unicodes values to ...
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What is really happening when we change encoding in a string?
http://php.net/manual/en/function.mb-convert-encoding.php
Say I do:
$encoded = mb_convert_encoding ($original);
That looks like simple enough. WHat I am imagining is the following
$original has a ...
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What type of encoding can I use to make a string shorter?
I am interested in encoding a string I have and I am curious if there is a type of encoding that can be used that will only include alpha and numeric characters and would preferably shorten the number ...
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