Character encodings for beginners - World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) This Unicode encoding is a good choice because you can use a single character encoding to handle any character you are likely to need This greatly simplifies things This greatly simplifies things Using Unicode throughout your system also removes the need to track and convert between various character encodings
encoding - What are Unicode, UTF-8, and UTF-16? - Stack Overflow An encoding form maps a code point to a code unit sequence A code unit is the way you want characters to be organized in memory, 8-bit units, 16-bit units and so on UTF-8 uses one to four units of eight bits, and UTF-16 uses one or two units of 16 bits, to cover the entire Unicode of 21 bits maximum
encoding - ’ showing on page instead of - Stack Overflow You have a mismatch in your character encoding; your string is encoded in one encoding (UTF-8) and whatever is interpreting this page is using another (say ASCII) Always specify your encoding in your http headers and make sure this matches your framework's definition of encoding Sample http header: Content-Type text html; charset=utf-8
What is character encoding and why should I bother with it But still in many cases applications just have to assume or guess what encoding they should use (e g they use the standard encoding of the operating system) There still is a lack of awareness about this, as still many developers don't even know what an encoding is Mime types Mime types are sometimes confused with encodings
character encoding - Unicode, UTF, ASCII, ANSI format differences . . . ASCII: Single byte encoding only using the bottom 7 bits (Unicode code points 0-127 ) No accents etc ANSI: There's no one fixed ANSI encoding - there are lots of them Usually when people say "ANSI" they mean "the default locale codepage for my system" which is obtained via Encoding Default, and is often Windows-1252 but can be other locales
Choosing applying a character encoding - World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) The x-user-defined encoding is a single-byte encoding whose lower half is ASCII and whose upper half is mapped into the Unicode Private Use Area (PUA) Like the PUA in general, using this encoding on the public Internet is best avoided because it damages interoperability and long-term use
python - Portuguese encoding ã, ê, ç, á - Stack Overflow Note there’s two groups of items in the Encoding menu: Encode in UTF-8 will reinterpret the current data as UTF-8 You should see the text in the editor change as you use this item Convert to UTF-8 will convert the loaded data from the current encoding to UTF-8 Load the file, and then check the current encoding in the status bar
Tutorial: Character Encoding and Unicode - World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) The search for the best encoding always to some extent was in conflict with the need to use a common encoding that met many needs, even if somewhat incompletely A brief history of character encoding is provided in Richard Gillam, Unicode Demystified, pp 25-59 More and More Characters 5-bit encodings; 6-bit encodings
Encoding - what is it and why do we need it? - Stack Overflow An interesting point that was noted in the discussion of another answer (which I didn't really think the author needed to delete) is that there is a difference between a character set, which (in the other author's words - don't remember his username) defines a mapping between integers and characters (e g "Capital A is 65"), and an encoding
HTML encoding issues - Â character showing up instead of Somewhere in that mess, the non-breaking spaces from the HTML template (the nbsp;s) are encoding as ISO-8859-1 so that they show up incorrectly as an "Â" character when viewing the document in a browser (FireFox) ActivePDF pukes on these non-UTF8 characters