After trying several times to set the proper charset, I wasn’t successful. Then I searched for an workaround and found one that worked with my problem. In addition to set the charset like I mentioned above, what I did is to convert all strings on my POST body with this php snippet: $message = @iconv(“UTF-8″,”Windows-1252//IGNORE”,$message); … Read more
There’s a big chance you can fix this by adding 1 line to your .htaccess file AddDefaultCharset off Alternatively replace “off” with the actual charset you want to use.
Maybe you should consider option C). Convert all accented characters to normal UTF-8 characters. So EXPRESSÃO.jpg -> EXPRESSAO.jpg I think this would help you a lot, not only when it come sto coding and file systems, but also storing names / references in databases. Update This is a function I use for removing accents. I … Read more
This is typically caused when you are copying/pasting MS Word information into the WordPress content editor. WordPress uses something called “Smart Quotes”, via a function named wptexturize(). Ideal Solution The ideal solution would be to go back through your content, and replace all single/double quotes using the keyboard. However, if you’re working with massive copy/pastes, … Read more
=C2=A0 represents the bytes C2 A0. Since this is UTF-8, it translates to U+00A0, which is the Unicode for non-breaking space. See UTF-8 (Wikipedia).
A character in Java is a Unicode code-unit which is treated as an unsigned number. So if you perform c = (char)b the value you get is 2^16 – 56 or 65536 – 56. Or more precisely, the byte is first converted to a signed integer with the value 0xFFFFFFC8 using sign extension in a widening conversion. This in turn is … Read more
To expand on the answers others have given: We’ve got lots of languages with lots of characters that computers should ideally display. Unicode assigns each character a unique number, or code point. Computers deal with such numbers as bytes… skipping a bit of history here and ignoring memory addressing issues, 8-bit computers would treat an … Read more
Yes, it is also a comment. And the contents of that comment carry special meaning if located at the top of the file, in the first two lines. From the Encoding declarations documentation: If a comment in the first or second line of the Python script matches the regular expression coding[=:]\s*([-\w.]+), this comment is processed as an encoding declaration; the … Read more