Encoding is changing a sequence of characters to symbols.
Encoding is changing a sequence of characters to symbols. Do not confuse with encryption.
Questions tagged [encoding]
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Automated video encoding linux
I am looking for a program/utility which will automatically take whatever video file I give it and transcode it into another more suitable format for a web site.
Anyone know of a good linux (prefer ubuntu) utility?
Thanks,
-Adam
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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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printing foreign text for PHP on UBUNTU and CENTOS
I am using domdocuments and using things like $div->nodeValue to obtain certain info from a web page.
On my ubuntu machine when i do php crawl.php everything is displayed properly in Chinese (the page is in UTF-8).
However on my CENTOS machine using…
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pdftotext not outputting hebrew characters
I'm using Xpdf's pdftotext to get the text out of some hebrew pdf files on Ubuntu.
On my local machine this worked fine. I then tried to do it on another machine and the hebrew characters don't show up in the text file. I verified that I have the…
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Custom Filter in cPanel to Auto-Delete Emails with Russian Characters
I get a lot of spam to my email account from Russia. The emails themselves (name, subject, body) are in Russian and I was hoping to create a custom filter in cPanel (not in SpamAssassin but in cPanel itself) to catch these emails and delete them…
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Apache encodes URL while rewriting
I'm having troubles with URL rewriting. My rules work well but they encode GET parameters.
/myurl/search?text=accès becomes /myurl/search?text=acc%25C3%25A8s
My search engine cannot work with this parameter and i cannot pass them in POST method. How…
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sql and web encoding problem
Guys, I've got an encoding problem I believe.
I have upgraded from phpBB2 to phpBB3.
The old databases were in latin1, the new ones have utf8 encoding.
Already during the upgrade process some rows of the DB were only read partly into the new…
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Ubuntu configure Postfix mail server encoding to support IDN (internationalized domain names)
To my understanding the default mail server on Ubuntu is Postfix.
I have Virtualmin and Webmin installed on my Ubuntu installation. I'm trying to figure out where to configure encoding for sending and receiving emails to handle IDN in the email…
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Convert MacCyrillic encoding in filenames to IBM866 on NTFS filesystem
After copying files from MacOS system to Windows share through samba, I got filenames like:
Сђ•вл
К†в†ЂЃ¶≠л• Ђ®бвл.pdf
П†бѓЃав.doc
And normally they should look like:
Сметы
Каталожные листы.pdf
Паспорт.doc
In some cases I also got U+F028 symbol at…
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List all files with corrupt filenames recursively
I've got a Linux server with some directories and files structure on it. Apparently somehow someone uploaded a bunch of filenames, which got corrupted. Consider the following example:
└── parent
├── foo1.jpg
├── f+�o2.jpg
└──…
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IIS 6 ASP encoding setting
I migrated an ASP site from a Win2008R2 server running IIS 6.1 to a Win2012 server running IIS 6.1. The IIS site settings did not migrate so easily.
One thing I just can't solve: When I send Arabic characters through ASP and into an MS SQL sproc…
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Bash Redirection Encoding
I'm trying to use the command base64 somefile.ext to covert files to text. The only problem is that the file size increases by 35%, and that becomes unacceptable for my larger files. I suspect that the files could be encoded in a way that makes…
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How to deal with bash errors when trying to run it?
Imagine a script which has standard bash linux scripting (running on SUSE linux). Like this:
#!/bin/bash
#version=1.0
#Some other text
command
#-------Comment
Changeversion=2.0
...
...
Is there any way how to automatically deal with errors or at…
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