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Edit Post #290503 Initial revision 10 months ago
Question How do I set UTF8 in a Vim modeline?
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 tool that converts the file to Latin1 (ISO-8859-1) (probably lossy). Is there a Vim modeline I can pu...
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10 months ago
Edit Post #290061 Initial revision about 1 year ago
Question How do I make animated dotted lines ("marching ants") in images on my web page?
How do I make animated dotted lines ("marching ants") in images on my web page? Some people have showed me diagrams online where the lines are animated dotted lines / animated dashed lines, where each dash moves towards the arrow-point end of the line. (I hear this kind of animated dotted line is...
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about 1 year ago
Edit Post #289602 Initial revision about 1 year ago
Answer A: Determine encoding of text
quick fix I agree with Canina that you need to do two translations to fix this problem. Fortunately, it appears that you can recover the original text without loss. Try this: ``` first convert from UTF-8 to WINDOWS-1252 iconv -f UTF-8 -t WINDOWS-1252 junk.txt next re-interpret the text a...
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about 1 year ago
Edit Post #285253 Initial revision almost 3 years ago
Question How can I ssh to a remote server from my Chromebook?
How can I ssh to a remote server from my Chromebook? A lot of the work I do involves ssh'ing to a remote web server, running software on that remote command shell, and testing things using a web browser. A lightweight Chromebook seems like it would support that. A lot of old documentation ...
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almost 3 years ago
Edit Post #285048 Initial revision almost 3 years ago
Answer A: Distinguish like I'm 5 years old — ArtBox, BleedBox, CropBox, MediaBox, TrimBox
Historically, books and magazines were printed on large pieces of paper, which were then cut into smaller pieces of paper. Even today large reels of paper run through rotary printing presses where the partial image printed in one color by roller needs to be lined up with the partial image printed...
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almost 3 years ago