Vertical tab was used to speed up printer vertical movement. Some printers used special tab belts with various tab spots. This helped align content on forms. VT to header space, fill in header, VT to body area, fill in lines, VT to form footer. Generally it was coded in the program as a character constant. … Read more
The UTF-8 BOM is a sequence of bytes at the start of a text stream (0xEF, 0xBB, 0xBF) that allows the reader to more reliably guess a file as being encoded in UTF-8. Normally, the BOM is used to signal the endianness of an encoding, but since endianness is irrelevant to UTF-8, the BOM is unnecessary. According to the Unicode standard, the BOM … Read more
Looks like google.searchGoogle(param) already returns unicode: So what you want is: As a side note, your code expects it to return a utf-8 encoded string so what was the point in decoding it (using unicode()) and encoding back (using .encode()) using the same encoding?
Your version does not support that character set, I believe it was 5.5.3 that introduced it. You should upgrade your mysql to the version you used to export this file. The error is then quite clear: you set a certain character set in your code, but your mysql version does not support it, and therefore … Read more
Try something like this.
2018 Update: As of February 2018, using compressions like gzip has become quite popular (around 73% of all websites use it, including large sites like Google, YouTube, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Reddit, Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange Network sites).If you do a simple decode like in the original answer with a gzipped response, you’ll get an error … Read more
char is actually a numeric type containing the unicode value (UTF-16, to be exact – you need two chars to represent characters outside the BMP) of the character. You can do everything with it that you can do with an int. Character.getNumericValue() tries to interpret the character as a digit.
To convert to HTML entities: See docs for mb_convert_encoding for more encoding options.
If the charset of the tables is the same as it’s content try to use mysql_set_charset(‘UTF8’, $link_identifier). Note that MySQL uses UTF8 to specify the UTF-8 encoding instead of UTF-8 which is more common. Check my other answer on a similar question too.
You probably want to have a list of supported encodings. For each file, try each encoding in turn, maybe starting with UTF-8. Every time you catch the MalformedInputException, try the next encoding.