When you have some binary data that you want to ship across a network, you generally don’t do it by just streaming the bits and bytes over the wire in a raw format. Why? because some media are made for streaming text. You never know — some protocols may interpret your binary data as control … Read more
I found that in 123, \d matches 1 and 3 but not 2. I was wondering if \d matches a digit satisfying what kind of requirement? I am talking about Python style regex. Regular expression plugin in Gedit is using Python style regex. I created a text file with its content being Only 1 and 3 are matched by the regex \d; 2 is not. Generally for a sequence of digit numbers … Read more
If you already have a byte array then you will need to know what type of encoding was used to make it into that byte array. For example, if the byte array was created like this: You will need to turn it back into a string like this: If you can find in the code … Read more
I am new to coding and have ran into a problem trying to encode a string. Is (a) now considered to be encoded? Second question: When I run the same code above in a script I get this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File “C:/Users/User/Desktop/Logger/Encoding practice.py”, line 3, in a.update(‘hi’) TypeError: Unicode-objects must be … Read more
That’s the Unicode Replacement Character, \uFFFD. (info) Something like this should work:
This might answer your question. Basically it is HTML encoding for a few predefined characters. Characters like > and & are HTML Entities specifically, they are Named HTML Entities
Somewhere in that mess, the non-breaking spaces from the HTML template (the s) are encoding as ISO-8859-1 so that they show up incorrectly as an “” character That’d be encoding to UTF-8 then, not ISO-8859-1. The non-breaking space character is byte 0xA0 in ISO-8859-1; when encoded to UTF-8 it’d be 0xC2,0xA0, which, if you (incorrectly) … Read more