I noticed that WordPress files use UNIX end-of-line and UTF-8 without BOM. Is this a standard that should be used? Is there anything else to pay attention to? I noticed that Filezilla fails to transfer Macintosh end-of-line files properly to Windows or Linux servers. New line endings are missing. And sometimes they are doubled with … Read more
I am a bit confused about encodings. As far as I know old ASCII characters took one byte per character. How many bytes does a Unicode character require? I assume that one Unicode character can contain every possible character from any language – am I correct? So how many bytes does it need per character? … Read more
This isn’t really a programming question, is there a command line or Windows tool (Windows 7) to get the current encoding of a text file? Sure I can write a little C# app but I wanted to know if there is something already built in? 14 Answers 14
Alright, so I’ve been doing some poking around, and I realize my problem, but I don’t know how to fix it. I have made a custom class to hold some data. I make objects for this class, and I need to them to last between sessions. Before I was putting all my information in NSUserDefaults, … Read more
I received some text that is encoded, but I don’t know what charset was used. Is there a way to determine the encoding of a text file using Python? How can I detect the encoding/codepage of a text file deals with C#. 14 Answers 14
I need an efficient (read native) way to convert an ArrayBuffer to a base64 string which needs to be used on a multipart post. 15 Answers 15
In Java, I have a String and I want to encode it as a byte array (in UTF8, or some other encoding). Alternately, I have a byte array (in some known encoding) and I want to convert it into a Java String. How do I do these conversions? 13 Answers 13
I always knew that WordPress uses utf8_general_ci as tables collation, but recently it keeps installing utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci. What I do is: Download WordPress from wordpress.org Rename wp-config-example.php to wp-config.php Set the defined constants as below /** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */ define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); /** The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if … Read more
I’ve imported WordPress post data onto a new site and noticed I have strange characters showing on pages and Blog posts. It usually shows where apostrophes should be. I’ve searched multiple solutions to UTF8 & latin1 solutions with success. I’ve looked at my database and the characters are showing there too. 1 Answer 1 What … Read more
When I open cmd.exe in Windows, what encoding is it using? How can I check which encoding it is currently using? Does it depend on my regional setting or are there any environment variables to check? What happens when you type a file with a certain encoding? Sometimes I get garbled characters (incorrect encoding used) … Read more
