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Say I have a URL http://example.com/query?q= and I have a query entered by the user such as: random word £500 bank $ I want the result to be a properly encoded URL: http://example.com/query?q=...
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Can we convert a hex string to a byte array using a built-in function in C# or do I have to make a custom method for this?
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When encoding a query string to be sent to a web server - when do you use escape() and when do you use encodeURI() or encodeURIComponent(): Use escape: escape("% +&="); OR use encodeURI(...
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I need to get UTF-8 working in my Java webapp (servlets + JSP, no framework used) to support äöå etc. for regular Finnish text and Cyrillic alphabets like ЦжФ for special cases. My setup is the ...
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I have many "can't encode" and "can't decode" problems with Python when I run my applications from the console. But in the Eclipse PyDev IDE, the default character encoding is set to UTF-8, and I'm ...
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With reference to the following thread: Java App : Unable to read iso-8859-1 encoded file correctly What is the best way to programatically determine the correct charset encoding of an inputstream/...
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I am programmatically exporting data (using PHP 5.2) into a .csv test file. Example data: Numéro 1 (note the accented e). The data is utf-8 (no prepended BOM). When I open this file in MS Excel is ...
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I have seen few py scripts which use this at the top of the script. In what cases one should use it? import sys reload(sys) sys.setdefaultencoding("utf-8")
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How can I convert this string: This string contains the Unicode character Pi(π) into an escaped ASCII string: This string contains the Unicode character Pi(\u03a0) and vice versa? The current ...
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I am trying to pipe the content of a file to a simple ASCII symmetrical encryption program i made. It's a simple program that reads input from STDIN and adds or subtracts a certain value (224) to each ...
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I am writing a Python 3.3 program to send some data to a webpage using POST method. Mostly for debugging process I am getting the page result and displaying it on the screen using print() function. ...
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I've heard people talking about "base 64 encoding" here and there. What is it used for?
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I want to achieve Base64 URL safe encoding in C#. In Java, we have the common Codec library which gives me an URL safe encoded string. How can I achieve the same using C#? byte[] toEncodeAsBytes = ...
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I'd like to write a T-SQL query where I encode a string as a Base64 string. Surprisingly, I can't find any native T-SQL functions for doing Base64 encoding. Does a native function exist? If not, ...
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I've got a legacy app just starting to misbehave, for whatever reason I'm not sure. It generates a bunch of HTML that gets turned into PDF reports by ActivePDF. The process works like this: Pull an ...
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I'm converting something from VB into C#. Having a problem with the syntax of this statement: if ((searchResult.Properties["user"].Count > 0)) { profile.User = System.Text.Encoding....
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In Python 2.7, given a URL like: example.com?title=%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%8F+%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%89%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0 How can I decode it to the expected result, example.com?title=...
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I have heard conflicting opinions from people - according to the Wikipedia UTF-8 page. They are the same thing, aren't they? Can someone clarify?
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I need to replace all non-ASCII (\x00-\x7F) characters with a space. I'm surprised that this is not dead-easy in Python, unless I'm missing something. The following function simply removes all non-...
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PEP 263 defines how to declare Python source code encoding. Normally, the first 2 lines of a Python file should start with: #!/usr/bin/python # -*- coding: <encoding name> -*- But I have seen a ...
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What's the basis for Unicode and why the need for UTF-8 or UTF-16? I have researched this on Google and searched here as well, but it's not clear to me. In VSS, when doing a file comparison, sometimes ...
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Does Node.js have built-in Base64 encoding yet? The reason why I ask this is that final() from crypto can only output hexadecimal, binary or ASCII data. For example: var cipher = crypto.createCipheriv(...
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I'm reading a file through a FileReader - the file is UTF-8 decoded (with BOM) now my problem is: I read the file and output a string, but sadly the BOM marker is outputted too. Why this occurs? fr = ...
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I have a string with escaped Unicode characters, \uXXXX, and I want to convert it to regular Unicode letters. For example: "\u0048\u0065\u006C\u006C\u006F World" should become "Hello World" I know ...
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I need to replace Microsoft Word's version of single and double quotations marks (“ ” ‘ ’) with regular quotes (' and ") due to an encoding issue in my application. I do not need them to be HTML ...
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