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Character sets are used to represent a repertoire of characters by some kind of encoding system, such as US-ASCII, ISO-8859, or UTF-8.

Character encoding is used to represent a repertoire of characters by some kind of encoding system. Depending on the abstraction level and context, corresponding code points and the resulting code space may be regarded as bit patterns, octets, natural numbers, electrical pulses, etc. A character encoding is used in computation, data storage, and transmission of textual data. "Character set", "character map", "codeset" and "code page" are related, but not identical, terms.

Common character encodings include

  • ASCII
  • EBCDIC
  • ISO 8859
  • Windows-1250
  • Guobiao
  • Big5
  • Unicode

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding

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How to enable correct charset HTTP-header in NGINX

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Command to create MySQL database with Character set UTF-8

I use create database dbname; to create database. but I want it to created with Character set UTF-8 Anyone know what is the command to use?
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How do I change my locale to UTF-8 in CentOS?

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Best way to make sure a MySQL database is fully in UTF8

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autoindex list UTF-8 charset in Nginx

My nginx autoindex page does not display UTF-8 characters correctly, utf-8 problem I have set the charset utf-8; in my server block config section of nginx.conf file but that doesn't seem to fix the problem.
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Are there any disadvantages of using UTF8 in an oracle database?

We are installing ordering a configured oracle database and they are asking us what character encoding we would like to have. The application (in Java) is in English only but users are from different parts of the world. Are there any motivations…
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How do I change the default character encoding in IIS on Windows Server 2003?

When validating my web page using the W3C Validator, I noticed that although I specify ISO-8859-1 encoding in my HTML, the web server seems to be specifying UTF-8 encoding in the HTTP headers. I've looked everywhere but I can't seem to find a way to…
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Mount unix samba 4 share to osx client without mangled file names

I have a unix server (arch linux) with samba 4.1.12. The share has files inside it with utf-8 nfc encoding (standard utf-8). When I mount this samba share into an osx client (10.9.5), files with special names like File with "quotes" are displayed…
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Is there a difference between en_US.utf8 and en_US.UTF-8?

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Is there a legitimate reason to use an encoded word in any header other than the subject?

Encoded words allow non-US-ASCII characters to be encoded as US-ASCII and thus placed into email headers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME#Encoded-Word Encoded words are often used in the Subject header, especially when the Subject is in another…
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How to properly backup mediawiki database (mysql) without messing up the data?

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Set character_set_results UTF8 in MySQL my.cnf

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UTF-8 Characters in Apache Access Log ✔

The issue I'm using PHP's apache_note() to log variables from web requests to a CustomLog format. However, try as I might, Apache doesn't want to log UTF-8 characters the way I'd like. In PHP, I have apache_note('some_value', '✔'); which corresponds…
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