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Why does modern Perl avoid UTF-8 by default?

𝙎𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙩 ℞: 𝟕 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙚 𝙍𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 Set your PERL_UNICODE envariable to AS. This makes all Perl scripts decode @ARGV as UTF‑8 strings, and sets the encoding of all three of stdin, stdout, and stderr to UTF‑8. Both these are global effects, not lexical ones. At the top of your source file (program, module, library, dohickey), prominently … Read more

Saving utf-8 texts with json.dumps as UTF8, not as \u escape sequence

Use the ensure_ascii=False switch to json.dumps(), then encode the value to UTF-8 manually: >>> json_string = json.dumps(“ברי צקלה”, ensure_ascii=False).encode(‘utf8’) >>> json_string b'”\xd7\x91\xd7\xa8\xd7\x99 \xd7\xa6\xd7\xa7\xd7\x9c\xd7\x94″‘ >>> print(json_string.decode()) “ברי צקלה” If you are writing to a file, just use json.dump() and leave it to the file object to encode: with open(‘filename’, ‘w’, encoding=’utf8′) as json_file: json.dump(“ברי צקלה”, json_file, … Read more

How to get UTF-8 working in Java webapps?

Answering myself as the FAQ of this site encourages it. This works for me: Mostly characters äåö are not a problematic as the default character set used by browsers and tomcat/java for webapps is latin1 ie. ISO-8859-1 which “understands” those characters. To get UTF-8 working under Java+Tomcat+Linux/Windows+Mysql requires the following: Configuring Tomcat’s server.xml It’s necessary … Read more

Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV files automatically?

Alex is correct, but as you have to export to csv, you can give the users this advice when opening the csv files: Save the exported file as a csv Open Excel Import the data using Data–>Import External Data –> Import Data Select the file type of “csv” and browse to your file In the … Read more

Setting the default Java character encoding

Unfortunately, the file.encoding property has to be specified as the JVM starts up; by the time your main method is entered, the character encoding used by String.getBytes() and the default constructors of InputStreamReader and OutputStreamWriter has been permanently cached. As Edward Grech points out, in a special case like this, the environment variable JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS can … Read more

What’s the difference between UTF-8 and UTF-8 without BOM?

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 … Read more

Trouble with UTF-8 characters; what I see is not what I stored

This problem plagues the participants of this site, and many others. You have listed the five main cases of CHARACTER SET troubles. Best Practice Going forward, it is best to use CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 and COLLATION utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci. (There is a newer version of the Unicode collation in the pipeline.) utf8mb4 is a superset of utf8 … Read more

UTF-8 all the way through

Data Storage: Specify the utf8mb4 character set on all tables and text columns in your database. This makes MySQL physically store and retrieve values encoded natively in UTF-8. Note that MySQL will implicitly use utf8mb4 encoding if a utf8mb4_* collation is specified (without any explicit character set). In older versions of MySQL (< 5.5.3), you’ll … Read more

French and Chinese characters are not appearing correctly

What you see is the bytes rendered as ISO-8859-1 or similar. Try setting charset in content-type response.setContentType(“text/html; charset=utf-8″);, include appropriate meta-tag <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ /> What are you using to generate that page?