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Posts tagged character-encoding
I have some text files which think they are encoded in UTF-8: file test.txt test.txt: Unicode text, UTF-8 text, with CRLF line terminators However if I look at their content, I think they migh...
Occasionally someone* occasionally modifies one of the files I'm responsible for with an archaic tool that decides to convert the updated file to UTF-16 (probably lossless) or an even more archaic...
Whenever I copy and paste URLs from my browser, they end up being percent-encoded and completely unreadable. For example, the homepage URL of the Japanese version of Wikipedia, https://ja.wikipedi...