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Encoding is changing a sequence of characters to symbols.

Encoding is changing a sequence of characters to symbols. Do not confuse with encryption.

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What are these weird request paths on my Apache server?

Possible Duplicate: What are these weird access requests? I'm getting a lot of requests like these in my access.log: 203.186.107.226 - - [16/Oct/2012:07:07:39 +0000]…
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Setting up trac with PostgreSQL - How to set encoding to UTF8?

So I've been looking to install trac on my debian server with PostgreSQL. I setup everything as per the docs but when trying to run trac-admin /path initenv I get this error for database encoding: DataError: character 0xe282ac of encoding "UTF8" has…
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Exchange Server 2010 email encoding

We have just moved to exchange 2010 and have as400 sending emails, when the emails arrive (with french accents examples è é à ù ç) on OWA the accent letter is replaced with a question mark ? example: D?ici ? votre d?part, l?? The same happens on…
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Umlaut encoding: tar on Mac Lion

I have a tar archive created on an old Unixware machine using ISO8859-1 encoding. When I try to extract it under Macosx Lion, I experience a bit of weirdness with German umlauts. For instance: I open a terminal.app window with the encoding set to…
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How do I enable characters like [Æ, Ø, Å] in PuTTY/Debian?

I'm using VIM through PuTTY to work on my development server, but it gets rather difficult when I have to work on files containing characters like those mentioned in the title. Not only does it make VIM look like this Denne applikasjonen krever…
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filenames encoding problem when migrating a PHP Application from Windows Server 2003 to Linux

I have a couple of PHP applications actually running on Windows 2003 Server. As they are actually using PHP, Mysql and even Apache on Windows, the project is to move them to a new Linux server (Debian based). But I got a problem with files uploaded…
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Content Encoding Error on new IIS 7 server with PHP

I recently moved a PHP (Cake framework) development site from an IIS 6 (x86) server to an IIS 7 server (x64). The content is all the same and the URL rewriting works, but on the attempt to display the first page I get this error: Error 330…
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base64 encoded emails

A problem: Email from my server comes like this: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding:…
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Where does the PHP/MySQL connection take its default charset?

I use mysql_connect to a database solely defined in UTF-8. Everywhere I can look in the configuration, I see UTF-8 Unicode (utf8) or utf8_general_ci. However, when I open the PHP connection, then use echo mysql_client_encoding();, I get latin1 as an…
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Python encoding problem

I have a python script that exports data from a mysql utf-8 table into an textfile. Here is the code that does the job csvDatei = codecs.open( csvDateiName, "w", "utf-8" ) ... cursor = db.cursor(); sql = "select * from %s.%s;" % (dbAusgang,…
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Cisco Default Character Encoding on Console

Question What is the default character encoding used by most Cisco devices when communicating over the console? Background I'm a software developer, writing an application that interfaces with several cisco devices via their console ports…
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motd with utf-8 encoding in Ubuntu Server 10.10

I've just changed default motd in Ubuntu (I edited /etc/update-motd.d/* files) and added some string in polish: echo "Aby uzyskać dodatkowe informacje i przykładowe skrypty wpisz:" but autogenerated /etc/motd is without accent characters: Aby…
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How can be changed the linux system's default character set?

I'm working in a software development team using svn. Since many developer's computers are working using windows, text file codification has to be agreed with everyone. I decided to use Linux, and probably I will have to change my machine's default…
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Are servers allowed to add a Content-Encoding header based on filename, if there is no compression on-the-fly?

Problem Suppose we have a compressed archive on disk, e.g. file.tar.gz, which should be served as-is. The file is served with Content-Type: application/gzip, but for some reason the server also adds a Content-Encoding: gzip header, even though it…
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Conditional directives based on User-Agent with Apache 2.2.x?

I want to implement something like the following in our Apache httpd configuration: RemoveEncoding .gz .tgz AddType application/x-gzip .gz but my understanding is that this…
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