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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 do I configure Jetty (via jettyrunner) so that it names a character set in the Content-Type response header?

I use Jetty (via the oh-so-handy Jetty Runner) for day-to-day web application testing. One thing I've recently stumbled on is the fact that I don't get a character set called out in the "Content-Type" response header all the time. I do get it in…
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character encoding: UTF8 vs iso-8859-1

I'm maintaining two generally parallel sites based on a recent release of a well-known php-based CMS. One site is in English, one in Polish. (Polish localization is a standard option for the CMS.) Both are operating normally. In particular, the…
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How to find malformed - corrupted - dos - BOMByte Files in Linux

I've several problems maintaining large production servers, in which some developers drop files from Windows environments, sometime with BOM-bytes (We use UTF8, and no need for that), causing lots of troubles. Other times, I got a "no end of line"…
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how to check the charset and collation of mysql database?

how to check the charset and collation of mysql database? or what command to the charset and collation of mysql database? Thanks
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Per-share encoding in Samba?

Most of my filesystems use KOI8-U (since early nineties), but there is one share, which is "owned" by a PHP-based web-application, that uses UTF8. I have unix charset = koi8-u in the [global] section of smb.conf, but that causes non-ASCII filenames…
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filenames, ASCII unicode escaped sequences to UTF8

I'm not sure if I've grasped the issue here so if I haven't just say so and I'll edit the title. My problem is the following: I have an Ubuntu 12.04 server (UTF-8 locale) to which users upload files via a web app or through shell. So I have no…
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How to check Linux encoding history

Is there a way to track the changes OS chracter set (encoding) for example lets say the character set was UTF8 before month and its now Latin?
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