UnicodeDecodeError: ‘charmap’ codec can’t decode byte X in position Y: character maps to

The file in question is not using the CP1252 encoding. It’s using another encoding. Which one you have to figure out yourself. Common ones are Latin-1 and UTF-8. Since 0x90 doesn’t actually mean anything in Latin-1, UTF-8 (where 0x90 is a continuation byte) is more likely. You specify the encoding when you open the file:

Text editor to open big (giant, huge, large) text files

Free read-only viewers: Large Text File Viewer (Windows) – Fully customizable theming (colors, fonts, word wrap, tab size). Supports horizontal and vertical split view. Also support file following and regex search. Very fast, simple, and has small executable size. klogg (Windows, macOS, Linux) – A maintained fork of glogg. Its main feature is regular expression search. It supports … Read more

What is the difference between Cygwin and MinGW?

As a simplification, it’s like this: Compile something in Cygwin and you are compiling it for Cygwin. Compile something in MinGW and you are compiling it for Windows. About Cygwin Cygwin is a compatibility layer that makes it easy to port simple Unix-based applications to Windows, by emulating many of the basic interfaces that Unix-based operating systems … Read more

how to edit or see the source code for dll files

It’s sort of difficult. I mean you can look at the file with a hex editor, but it’s not going to look nice. However, you can use 3rd party tools in order to get as much info you can about the .dll: Dependency Walker – useful to get the .dlls that your .dll depends on (and the functions that it need … Read more

Linux error while loading shared libraries: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

UpdateWhile what I write below is true as a general answer about shared libraries, I think the most frequent cause of these sorts of message is because you’ve installed a package, but not installed the -dev version of that package. Well, it’s not lying – there is no libpthread_rt.so.1 in that listing. You probably need to re-configure and re-build … Read more

Hata!: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'divattrend_liink'@'localhost' (using password: YES)