Questions tagged [decode]

To convert some encoded data (e.g. bytes, electrical signals) to some representation ready for further processing (e.g. string, object, picture)

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Decode HTML entities in android

I need to decode HTML entities, e.g. from ö to ö, and & to &. URLEncoder.decode(str) does not do the job (convert from % notations). TextUtils has a HTMLencode, but not a HTMLdecode. Are there any function for decoding HTML entities?
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JSON stringify missing from jQuery 1.4.1?

Apparently jQuery has the ability to decode a given object or string into a JSON object. However, I have a JS object that I need to POST back to the server and I find no utility in jQuery that wraps the JSON.stringify() function. That function is…
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Using an Alias in a WHERE clause

I have a query which is meant to show me any rows in table A which have not been updated recently enough. (Each row should be updated within 2 months after "month_no".): SELECT A.identifier , A.name , TO_NUMBER(DECODE( A.month_no …
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How to decode JSON in Flutter?

How to decode JSON in Flutter? The question is simple, but the answer isn't, at least for me. I have a project that uses a lot of JSON Strings. Basically, the entire communication between the app and the server is through JSON. I have been using…
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Write Base64-encoded image to file

How to write a Base64-encoded image to file? I have encoded an image to a string using Base64. First, I read the file, then convert it to a byte array and then apply Base64 encoding to convert the image to a string. Now my problem is how to decode…
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PHP replacing special characters like à->a, è->e

I have php document signup.php which save the content from form (in form.php document) to MySQL base. The problem arises when I want to reformat the input content. I want do decode UTF-8 charachters like à->a. $first_name=$_POST['first_name']; …
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What is the equivalent of JavaScript's decodeURIcomponent in PHP?

I have a string with unicode characters that I am transferring via HTTP. This string was encoded with Javascript's encodeURIcomponent(). Is there an equivalent function in php to Javascript's decodeURIComponent()?
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Data extraction from /Filter /FlateDecode PDF stream in PHP

I can not decrypt the data from the stream like: 56 0 obj << /Length 1242 /Filter /FlateDecode >> stream x]êΩnƒ Ñ{ûbÀKq¬æ\âê¢....(whole binary is omitted) endstream endobj I tried isolate the binary content (x]êΩnƒ…
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QR code (2D barcode) coding and decoding algorithms?

Looking for free/opensource code or description of algorithms to code (simple) and decode (hard) the 2D barcode QR code. It doesn't seem like a trivial problem, but it's so popular in Japan that there must be something already available...
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Loading utf-8 encoded text into MySQL table

I have a large CSV file that I am going to load it into a MySQL table. However, these data are encoded into utf-8 format, because they include some non-english characters. I have already set the character set of the corresponding column in the table…
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How to decode base64 url in python?

For Facebook fbml Apps Facebook is sending in a signed_request parameter explained here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/canvas They have given the php version of decoding this signed request: http://pastie.org/1054154 How to do…
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MP3 Decoding on Android

We're implementing a program for Android phones that plays audio streamed from the internet. Here's approximately what we do: Download a custom encrypted format. Decrypt to get chunks of regular MP3 data. Decode MP3 data to raw PCM data in a…
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Android - How to decode and decompile any APK file?

I'm working on ads: my customers gave me some APK files of their Apps. My work consists of inserting ad banners into them. After closing the ad banners, these apps will run. My question is: How to decode and decompile APK file?
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Convert ' to an apostrophe in PHP

My data has many HTML entities in it (• ...etc) including '. I just want to convert it to its character equivalent. I assumed htmlspecialchars_decode() would work, but - no luck. Thoughts? I tried this: echo…
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Best way to handle email parsing/decoding in PHP?

Currently I'm using the PEAR library's mimeDecode.php for parsing incoming emails. It seems to have a lot of issues and fails to decode a lot of messages, so I'd like to replace it with something better. I'm looking for something that is able to…
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