ASCII vs Unicode + UTF-8
In modern times, ASCII is now a subset of UTF-8, not its own scheme. UTF-8 is backwards compatible with ASCII.
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Using box-drawing Unicode characters in batch files
If you want to write console batch files that use those characters, you need an editor that will save the batch file using the console’s code page. To check what that is, type: C:\>chcp Active code page: 437 This is the result for my US Windows system. Western European versions of Windows will often be … Read more
Convert unicode code point to literal character in Go
You can use the strconv.Unquote() and strconv.UnquoteChar() functions to do the conversion. One thing you should be aware of is that strconv.Unquote() can only unquote strings that are in quotes (e.g. start and end with a quote char ” or a back quote char `), so we have to manually append that. See this example: … Read more
What does it mean when my text is displayed as Question Marks?
In Windows there are 2 common display problems that occur when trying to display Unicode characters: text sometimes appears as question marks This occurs when Unicode data is converted to an 8-bit character set encoding (or technically multi-byte characters) usually via the system codepage (but other code pages can be specified in the conversion calls). … Read more
Classic ASP: How to write unicode string data in classic ASP?
The Content-Type meta header informs the browser to treat the content sent as a UTF-8 encoded text stream. It doesn’t ensure that the stream sent is actually UTF-8. To handle UTF-8 correctly you need to do 3 things:- Ensure your static content is saved in a UTF-8 compatible encoding. Ensure your dynamic content is encoded … Read more
How to read utf16 text file to string in golang?
The latest version of golang.org/x/text/encoding/unicode makes it easier to do this because it includes unicode.BOMOverride, which will intelligently interpret the BOM. Here is ReadFileUTF16(), which is like os.ReadFile() but decodes UTF-16. package main import ( “bytes” “fmt” “io/ioutil” “log” “strings” “golang.org/x/text/encoding/unicode” “golang.org/x/text/transform” ) // Similar to ioutil.ReadFile() but decodes UTF-16. Useful when // reading data … Read more
Is there a Unicode glyph that looks like a “key” icon? [closed]
U+1F511 🔑 KEY (128273 decimal) Also: U+1F5DD 🗝 (Decimal: 🗝) OLD KEY U+26BF ⚿ SQUARED KEY U+1F510 🔐 CLOSED LOCK WITH KEY U+1F512 🔒 LOCK U+1F513 🔓 OPEN LOCK U+1F50F 🔏 LOCK WITH INK PEN
complete, monospaced Unicode font? [closed]
Unicode is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you might think it’s a long way down the codepage to ü, but that’s just peanuts to Unicode. I really doubt there’s any font in the world (monospaced or not) that has “complete” Unicode. The best you … Read more
Print Directory & File Structure with icons for representation in Markdown [closed]
I followed an example in another repository and wrapped the directory structure within a pair of triple backticks (“`): “` project │ README.md │ file001.txt │ └───folder1 │ │ file011.txt │ │ file012.txt │ │ │ └───subfolder1 │ │ file111.txt │ │ file112.txt │ │ … │ └───folder2 │ file021.txt │ file022.txt “`
iconv: Converting from Windows ANSI to UTF-8 with BOM
You can add it manually by first echoing the bytes into the file: echo -ne ‘\xEF\xBB\xBF’ > names.utf8.csv and then concatenating your required information at the end: iconv -f CP1252 -t UTF-8 names.csv >> names.utf8.csv Note the >> rather than >.