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Is there an upside down caret character?

I have to maintain a large number of classic ASP pages, many of which have tabular data with no sort capabilities at all. ...

May 16, 2022
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“for line in…” results in UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf-8’ codec can’t decode byte

Here is my code, for line in open('u.item'): # Read each line Whenever I run this code it gives the following error: UnicodeDecodeError: ...

May 15, 2022
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Detect encoding and make everything UTF-8

I’m reading out lots of texts from various RSS feeds and inserting them into my database. Of course, there are several different character ...

May 14, 2022
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What does “Content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8” really mean?

When I make a POST request with a JSON body to my REST service I include Content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8 in the message header. ...

May 12, 2022
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Change MySQL default character set to UTF-8 in my.cnf?

Currently we are using the following commands in PHP to set the character set to UTF-8 in our application. Since this is a ...

May 11, 2022
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Unicode, UTF, ASCII, ANSI format differences

What is the difference between the Unicode, UTF8, UTF7, UTF16, UTF32, ASCII, and ANSI encodings? In what way are these helpful for programmers? ...

May 9, 2022
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Why do we use Base64?

Wikipedia says Base64 encoding schemes are commonly used when there is a need to encode binary data that needs be stored and transferred ...

May 9, 2022
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Setting the default Java character encoding

How do I properly set the default character encoding used by the JVM (1.5.x) programmatically? I have read that -Dfile.encoding=whatever used to be ...

May 8, 2022
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No line-break after a hyphen

I’m looking to prevent a line break after a hyphen - on a case-by-case basis that is compatible with all browsers. Example: I ...

May 8, 2022
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What is the difference between utf8mb4 and utf8 charsets in MySQL?

What is the difference between utf8mb4 and utf8 charsets in MySQL? I already know about ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings; but I’m ...

May 6, 2022
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