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Questions tagged [charset]

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Which languages does the character encoding UTF-8 support?

What written and speak-able languages does UTF-8 support? How many languages does the UTF-8 support?
William
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Unadvisable to use UTF-8 for mails?

Thunderbird (in German) uses the charset ISO-8859-15 (or -1, can't check right now) by default for outgoing and incoming mails. (If you want to change the default, see How can I change the default encoding type Thunderbird uses when composing a new…
unor
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How to display text in UTF8 from mysql /phpmyadmin?

I have a database with multiple tables. The database and table and every row of table is set to utf8_romanian_ci. Every name which I import that contains diacritics will not be displayed correctly. For example: If i introduce MaÂehx in table I have…
Utf8
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Change the default codepage from latin1 to utf8 on a linux machine

How can I change the default codepage/charset on a linux system from latin1 to utf8? I need to do this on two systems, one is running Ubuntu and the other Debian.
tangens
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How to mount via cifs non-unicode samba sever with character set conversion?

in old times of smbfs I use codepage and iocharset options, but cifs does not support codepage. What I can do?
vitaly.v.ch
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Running pdfcrack to include special characters in charset

I'm trying to recover a password from a PDF file using pdfcrack. I want to change the charset to include special characters. Can I use some kind of i/o redirect to feed the contents of a a similiar file like this:…
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Should a use utf-8 or "utf-8" as a charset value in an email header?

When sending an email to an Outlook.com with forwarding turned on, I find that the forwarded mail is rejected. On examining the sent mail and the mail sitting in Outlook's inbox. I find that Microsoft have essentially re-written parts of the mail…
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ffmpeg: CP1252: Invalid argument

I'm trying to burn subtitles into a video. My subtitles are in CP1252 and I have this error, I don't know why: [NULL @ 0x5fe0040] Unable to find a suitable output format for 'CP1252' CP1252: Invalid argument ffmpeg -i input.mkv -acodec aac -ar…
Kaayo25
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LibreOffice Calc - Split one column into two

I'm moving user/customer details from my mother's old web store. Only problem is that exported .csv-file has name details in the same column like this: [ col A ] lastname, firstname lastname, firstname lastname, firstname I would like…
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Relationship between unicode and UTF-8 / 16 / 32

I don't understand the relationship between UTF-8 and its other variants and am getting anomalous results at the terminal. For example, right arrow is: 0xE2 0x86 0x92 in UTF-8 but it is 0x2192 in UTF-16 and Unicode I don't understand how E28692 is…
Tyler Durden
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Why is windows 8 rendering CRLFs as a Square Character

Possible Duplicate: Unknown glyph symbols on the Volume Mixer In a number of random locations in windows 8 (one of which is the volume control) it seems to be rendering the end of line as a visible square character. Anyone got any idea what this…
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How do I connect from a utf-8 client to a latin1 server over ssh?

I have a fresh Ubuntu install and I want to connect over ssh in a gnome-terminal. The server uses latin1 (All files etc. are latin1), so I want to use that in the session. I have changed the charset in the menu-option so that characters are output…
troelskn
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Weird character inserted when pasting with mouse in mobaxterm terminal

Example of weird character insertion: I get an error because an extra weird character got sent : ▒ My mobaxterm terminal is in utf-8, version 20.2. Windows 10 21H2 It happens when I paste with the right click from my desktop to the terminal. Maybe…
krpt
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Character set reverse search

I have a set of strings (well, filenames, but that detail I can handle myself) that I want to convert to UTF-8. However, by trying the obvious candidates I'm not able to do the conversion successfully, except that it must be a 8-bit character set.…
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Strange font behavior in "displaying source code mode" of Firefox

When visiting "http://www.veritech.co.kr/" and displaying the source code (ctrl-u) the font used for the displaying the code is different from the usual font. The charset used by this page is not very usual (euc-kr) but why would it affect the way…
Olivier Lalonde
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