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Encoding is changing a sequence of characters to symbols.

Encoding is changing a sequence of characters to symbols. Do not confuse with encryption.

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How can I query the encoding of a postgresql cluster?

When you create a new postgresql cluster you can specify an encoding for the cluster, but I'm not sure to know how to retrieve it once the cluster has been created. I have seen that with \encoding you can see an encoding, but I don't know it this is…
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Is there a difference between en_US.utf8 and en_US.UTF-8?

Server info (DNS and IPs removed): cat /proc/version && uname -a && java -version Linux version 2.6.16.33-xenU (*************) (gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-52)) #2 SMP Wed Aug 15 17:27:36 SAST 2007 Linux *************…
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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 encode video to use HTML 5 video tag?

I'm trying to use
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which internet audio streaming server can I use?

I need an audio streaming setup that supports the following formats: WMA, AAC and MP3. The streams must be compatible both with desktop players like Winamp. Win Media Player and with Flash Player and devices like iPhone, Android, etc. I'm looking…
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How is it possible I can ssh to a machine from windows, but not my mac?

I'm at work right now and my colleagues prepared a Debian server for me and left. Now I just found out that I can ssh into it using PuTTY from a Windows (XP) box just fine (no Linux machines here, sadly) but somehow when I'm on a mac, ssh [user@ip]…
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Syntax for apache RewriteRule to match %-encoded URLs? (to fix character encoding issues; windows-1252 <=> utf-8 )

I host a webpage that has 'project²' in the URL, matching an on-disk directory project² from where static files are hosted. This page is used by a java-based client to load data from URLs (bioinformatics software IGV). My page lists URLs in the…
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Is there a way to "replay" a packet capture of a smtp session for the purpose of debugging?

I'm troubleshooting a smtp issue involving character-set encoding and it's extremely difficult to involve the end user. I have a packet capture of an incoming smtp session that results in problematic behavior but if I try to copy/paste the mime…
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Character encoding of file names with autoindex at webserver on windows

I have set up a webserver on windows 8.1. Now i am having problems with the character encodings of links: There are directories and file names containing german umlauts (ä ö ü ß). The autoindex feature of the webserver generates index pages for the…
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Filename encoding switched to UTF-8 by tar when untaring to Windows share

We have different Magento installations (webshop) that allows images to be added to a product freely. When an image is added to a product, the file is named in a specific way that sometimes encorporates special characters (for instance German…
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What encoding is used for non English languages in an email subject?

I'm writing a specification that essentially requires ASCII characters in an email message. I do recall that an email message can have a subject encoded in a foreign language, however I don't know what that encoding is called. I don't think the…
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FFMPEG AAC Encoder Vanished?

I'm running Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS x64. I've been using ffmpeg on this machine to encode H.264 videos with AAC audio for over a year. There was an update to the ffmpeg packages this week that seems to have broken the AAC encoder. The command I'm…
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How to pass Question Mark (?) in password for HTTP Basic Authentication in URL parameters?

I am automating a website which requires HTTP Basic Authentication. The suggestions given in this link work like a charm in most cases: Can you pass user/pass for HTTP Basic Authentication in URL parameters? However, some of the users have a…
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Encoding issue between NFSv3 and NFSv4

We have some issues regarding NFS share regarding filenames encoding. We were previously mounting as NFSv3 and started to use NFSv4 and some files previously created, with special characters (typically French accented characters) are now…
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Can't use Intel Quicksync(headless) for transcoding

/dev/dri and /usr/lib/dri doesn't exist. vainfo returns: error: can't connect to X server! error: failed to initialize display Aborted lspci | grep VGA returns: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core…
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