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You can use Java APIs not only to help translate characters, strings, and text streams to other languages, but also to convert Unicode character sets to non-Unicode and vice versa.
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I started by trying to store strings in sqlite using python, and got the message:
sqlite3.ProgrammingError: You must
not use 8-bit bytestrings unless you
use a text_factory that can interpret
8-bit bytestrings (like text_factory =
str). It is highly recommended that
you instead just…
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I started by trying to store strings in sqlite using python, and got the message:
sqlite3.ProgrammingError: You must
not use 8-bit bytestrings unless you
use a text_factory that can interpret
8-bit bytestrings (like text_factory =
str). It is highly recommended that
you instead just…
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Hi,
I have a Microsoft Notepad flate file with data and Vertical Bar as column delimiter.
I get following message: cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types
It seems it is my nvarchar(max) that creates my problem.
I changed to varchar(max); but still the same problem.
How…
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On Windows 7, dir or tree can't show unicode characters, even starting cmd with cmd /U
So I would press Window Key + R to run something, and type in cmd /U so that the content might handle Unicode.
And then using dir or tree /F, the content in Unicode won't show as Unicode. (in Window Explorer…
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I'm going to ask what is probably quite a controversial question: "Should one of the most
popular encodings, UTF-16, be considered harmful?"
Why do I ask this question?
How many programmers are aware of the fact that UTF-16 is actually a variable length encoding? By this I mean that there are code…
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I'm working on a english only C++ program for Windows where we were told "always use std::wstring", but it seems like nobody on the team really has much of an understanding beyond that.
I already read the question titled "std::wstring VS std::string. It was very helpful, but I still don't quite…
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Examining the attributes of UTF-16 and UTF-8, I can't find any reason to prefer UTF-16.
However, checking out Java and C#, it looks like strings and chars there default to UTF-16. I was thinking that it might be for historic reasons, or perhaps for performance reasons, but couldn't find any information…
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I'm going to ask what is probably quite a controversial question: "Should one of the most
popular encodings, UTF-16, be considered harmful?"
Why do I ask this question?
How many programmers are aware of the fact that UTF-16 is actually a variable length encoding? By this I mean that there are code…
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I'm working on an iphone app that needs to display superscripts and subscripts. I'm using a picker to read in data from a plist but the unicode values aren't being displayed corretly in the pickerview. Subscripts and superscripts are not being recognized. I'm assuming this is due to the encoding…
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