#character-encoding

Answer: Default PowerShell to emitting UTF-8 instead of UTF-16? #answer #development #dev

Default PowerShell to emitting UTF-8 instead of UTF-16?

By default, PowerShell in Windows seems to be outputting UTF-16 (e.g., if I do a simple echo hello > hi.txt, then hi.txt ends up in UTF-16). I know that I can force this to my desired text encoding by instead doing echo hello | out-file -encoding utf8 hi.txt, but what I’d like is for that to just be the default when I use the redirection…

Resolved: How can I enforce so Notepad++ uses UTF-8 every time I create a new file? #solution #development #it

How can I enforce so Notepad++ uses UTF-8 every time I create a new file?

I want to use the character encoding UTF-8 (without BOM) on my files. I can change the encoding from the “Format” menu, but it is reset every time I create a new file or open a file.

How can I do so Notepad++ uses UTF-8 (without BOM) as default encoding?

Answer [by barti_ddu]: How can I enforce so Notepad++ uses UTF-8…

How to: Java: Why charset names are not constants? #dev #development #it

Java: Why charset names are not constants?

Charset issues are confusing and complicated by themselves, but on top of that you have to remember exact names of your charsets. Is it "utf8"? Or "utf-8"? Or maybe "UTF-8"? When searching internet for code samples you will see all of the above. Why not just make them named constants and use Charset.UTF8?

Answer [by Jon Skeet]: Java: Why charset names…

Fixed Detect encoding and make everything UTF-8 #dev #it #asnwer

Detect encoding and make everything UTF-8

I’m reading out lots of texts from various RSS feeds and inserting them into my database.

Of course, there are several different character encodings used in the feeds, e.g. UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1.

Unfortunately, there are sometimes problems with the encodings of the texts. Example:

1) The “ß” in “Fußball” should look like this in my database: “Ÿ”. If it…

Fixed Change MySQL default character set to UTF-8 in my.cnf? #dev #it #asnwer

Change MySQL default character set to UTF-8 in my.cnf?

Currently we are using the following commands in PHP to set the character set to UTF-8 in our application.

Since this is a bit of overhead, we’d like to set this as the default setting in MySQL. Can we do this in /etc/my.cnf or in another location?

SET NAMES 'utf8' SET CHARACTER SET utf8

I’ve looked for a default charset in /etc/my.cnf, but…

Fixed Setting the default Java character encoding? #dev #it #asnwer

Setting the default Java character encoding?

How do I properly set the default character encoding used by the JVM (1.5.x) programmatically?

I have read that -Dfile.encoding=whatever used to be the way to go for older JVMs… I don’t have that luxury for reasons I wont get into.

I have tried:

System.setProperty("file.encoding", "UTF-8");

And the property gets set, but it doesn’t seem to cause the…

Fixed What's different between utf-8 and utf-8 without BOM? #dev #it #asnwer

What’s different between utf-8 and utf-8 without BOM?

What`s different between utf-8 and utf-8 without BOM? Which is better?

Answer: What’s different between utf-8 and utf-8 without BOM?

UTF-8 without BOM has no BOM, which doesn’t make it any better than UTF-8 with BOM, except when the consumer of the file needs to know (or would benefit from knowing) whether the file is UTF-8-encoded or not.

T…