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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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HUDSON: how to manually encode the LDAP managerPassword?

I need to know how to manually encode the LDAP managerPassword which controls the authentication to hudson: ldap.example.org dc=example,dc=org …
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Changing the character encoding of a MySQL database

Our whole application is now able to handle UTF-8 and it will be our choice in terms of encoding all across our architecture. The last step is to change the encoding of our MySQL databases. Of course, ALTER TABLE db_table CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET…
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Importing UTF8 data into MySQL from a file causes truncation

I have a file called person.sql with 1 line: INSERT INTO Person (sFullname) VALUES ('Thomas Ågren'); If I run the following command from the shell: mysql --default-character-set=utf8 -uusername -ppassword mydatabase < person.sql I get truncated…
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Character encoding in sql server 2005

Where can I configure (if it's possible) how Sql Server 2005 "interprets" character encoding of string data sent trough TDS protocol (in this case from web application)? Maybe it would be better if I describe whole problematic situtation: when…
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How can I stream DIVX, etc. files from Windows Server 2003 Streaming Media Server?

Do I just need to install the codecs? Or is there a process for streaming custom encoded media?
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How to serve HTTP filenames with special characters?

Take the following blog page as a case: http://www.roney.com.br/2010/06/20/estados-do-brasil-um-pais-que-precisa-se-unir/ !Careful, it has tons of youtubes embedded, so is a slow load! It is a Brazilian web page, written in Portuguese but hosted…
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Apache rewrite rules and special characters

I have a server where some files have an actual %20 in their name (they are generated by an automated tool which handles spaces this way, and I can't do anything about this); this is not a space: it's "%" followed by "2" followed by "0". On this…
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PHP & IIS 6 Encoding problem

The server is running Windows 2003 with IIS 6.0.3790.1830 x86 (iis.dll). My database server is Microsoft SQL Server 2000. My PHP version is 5.3. The original application is hosted on appserv1 and it's database is on dbserv1. It's working fine,…
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Using Chinese Characters With Mod_Rewrite

I'm trying to create a rule using Chinese characters #RewriteRule ^zh(.*) /中文版$1 [L,R=301] creates error 500 when i change the file to UTF-8 #RewriteRule ^zh(.*) /%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E7%89%88$1 [L,R=301] redirects to…
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File encoding altered by FTP transfer

A user has used FTP to transfer some HTML files to our webserver. These HTML files contain characters such as: ‘ ’ which aren't properly encoded in HTML markup. When they've been uploaded, the website displays the � character (which can sometimes…
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Encoding error on just one server

I run several servers, one for development, one for client testing and another for production. I have a character encoding issue (the old "question marks in diamonds" appearing instead of accented characters), but only on one of these servers. The…
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Unicode-like encoding for filenames using Windows10-NFS-client and Linux-NFS-server

Problem The NFS-Client of Windows10 Pro mount an NFS-share with lang=ansi by default. This causing problems using filenames with umlauts or asian characters (e.g. Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana, etc). Details about my setup Server is Debian GNU/Linux…
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Rename file with invalide filename

I have a buch of files on a Linux machine that are using invalid filenames. I tried using the "detox" ultility, as well as convmv and recode, but they keep failing with the error recode: fopen (Entw�rfe): Invalid argument Even a simple ls -la…
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Postgresql "Could not determine cluster encoding"

Background: I was migrating a system from one Ubuntu host to another and along with it a Postgresql database. Unfortunately I don't have access to the original server any longer and the backup file that I was going to use has corrupted. I have been…
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POP3 username including special characters

I need to access an Mailbox in Exchange Server 2016 via POP3. Unfortunately the username contains German special characters like 'ä' or 'ß'. POP3 service just gives an -ERR Protocol error. 17. Is there a possibility to access the mailbox via POP3…
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