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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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MYSQL Collations [utf8_general_ci] and [utf8_unicode_ci]. What's the difference?

I'm wondering if there any different between these tow Collations in mysql encoding charset UTF8: utf8_general_ci and utf8_unicode_ci They both looks the same! note: For now I'm writing in them in English only, But I'm afraid if it has a side-effect…
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Apache mod_wl encoding issue for URI part

I'm using Apache2 in combination with mod_wl_20.so to loadbalance to 2 weblogic instances. Apache is listening on 7070. This plugin is partialy removing the encoding of my URI of some searches which have spaces in them. This is causing an issue on…
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HTTP proxy to deal with different encoding

I am working on a web crawler, so I parse HTML pages. My problem is sometime the page encoding is not UTF8 (ISO, exotic Windows[0-9] etc..) and my analyser failled. I tried many solution in PHP/Java/NodeJS to convert the content but there is always…
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CentOS: which font to use for Big5-encoded files?

This could be a very basic question, still... Which font do I need installed on my CentOS VM to display Big5-encoded files properly in the output of regular Unix commands like 'more', 'cat', etc. ? And how can I check whether it is already installed…
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SubversionEdge and Powergui: ViewVC shows BOM

I am trying to set up SVN repository and since we are limited to Windows as server system here, I chose SubversionEdge as SVN/ViewVC solution. Unfortunately for some reason all files that are created by PowerGUI and submitted using TortoiseSVN are…
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CentOS server bash encoding issue

I think I'm having issues with bash character encoding. The machine is CentOS 6.2 on a rackspace cloud. For anyone not familiar with npm those characters should be vertical and horizontal pipes/bars that display the plugin hierarchy as a tree.
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What would prevent IIS 7 from handling a URL including %20

I am dealing with a web server that resets the connection on any URL that includes an encoded space. e.g. http//somehost/some%20path causes the connection to be reset. I don't think it is permissions related since if I rename the directory to…
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VirtualBox Shared Folder encoding issue

I'm using Ubuntu in Virtualbox and have a shared folder mounted to Virtualbox which i'm accessing inside Ubuntu. The problem is, that when i'm editing and saving some files from shared folder in Windows it's getting some strange symbols at the end…
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File downloaded with wget has wrong encoding

We have a page on our intranet which is just plain/text encoded in UTF-8 and it contais insert scripts for database. And problem is, when I download this page to a file with wget or curl, my downloaded file has UTF-8 encoding but special…
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Unable to change encoding to UTF-8 in Open Office

I see the following when I look at a document in Finnish alt text http://files.getdropbox.com/u/175564/oo-bug-finnish.png The problem seems to be in encoding. I am not sure which encohing OO uses by default. I can see the documents in terminal…
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Unable find the right encoding for a HTML -file in Vim

I see alt text http://files.getdropbox.com/u/175564/bug-enc.png where all contents is in one line. It seems that this is the reason of bad encoding. I can see the characters ^M. How can you get the encoding right in Vim?
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Automatically Transcode Video and Upload to Cloud

I asked this over on superuser, with no luck - I'm hoping serverfault is the more appropriate site. I'm looking for a solution to take video files from my HD Camera and automate transcoding to a smaller format and then uploading to the cloud (AWS or…
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Ubuntu 8.04LTS Folder name encoding issue

I will explain my problem from the beginning, I have an Ubuntu server 8.04LTS and I use a Java application with Tomcat 6.0.18 and JRE 1.6. The problem is that the display of characters such as (é è ç û) is replaced by other strange characters. I…
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Apache Content-Type encoding changing from UTF-8 to iso-88591 from directory to directory

I have a site running on Apache 2.2.8 (Plesk 9.5.4) For this site there is a strange behaivor the root directory only has html and it is served with the following header with is great. http://globalmit.com/ Response Headers Date Wed, 04 May 2011…
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SQL Error (1064) when importing data from SQL file

I have a MySQL database, which was originally set up with the default latin1 character set and latin1_swedish_ci collation. I was using the database like this for sometime, until I noticed strange characters on my production web site, which is…
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