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 …

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 …

Apr 10, 2015 · 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 …

Mar 31, 2014 · 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 …

In this context, that key is called a character encoding. There are many character encodings to choose from. Choosing & applying a character encoding offers simple advice on which …

Mar 19, 2010 · 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 …

Jun 9, 2022 · You should use your language's URL encoding methods when placing strings in URLs. You can see a handy list of characters with man ascii. It has this compact diagram …

Feb 14, 2017 · Firefox will detect the encoding - you can see what it came up with under View -> Character Encoding. I changed my file's encoding using TextMate once I knew the correct …

Jan 14, 2016 · Encoding transforms data into another format using a scheme that is publicly available so that it can easily be reversed. Encryption transforms data into another format in …

Somewhere in that mess, the non-breaking spaces from the HTML template (the  s) are encoding as ISO-8859-1 so that they show up incorrectly as an "Â" character when viewing …