A method of representing characters (such as A, 9, %, ழ, ♦, and non-printing control characters) for storage and communication. The Unicode standard provides a code point (number) for each of over 100,000 different characters, and the standard is implemented by character encodings such as UTF-8, widely used in Linux systems. The first 128 Unicode code points are the ASCII characters, which UTF-8 represents with 1 byte per character.
Questions tagged [encoding]
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How can I encode and decode percent-encoded strings on the command line?
How can I encode and decode percent-encoded (URL encoded) strings on the command line?
I'm looking for a solution that can do this:
$ percent-encode "ændrük"
%C3%A6ndr%C3%BCk
$ percent-decode "%C3%A6ndr%C3%BCk"
ændrük
ændrük
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How can I see which encoding is used in a file
I had some problems with subtitle files in video omxplayer. To solve it I had to convert from windows-1250 to UTF-8 encoding. My question is, how can I see for some specific file which encoding is used?
NonStandardModel
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Switch encoding of terminal with a command
One of the servers I quite often ssh to uses western encoding instead of utf-8 (and there's no way I can change that).
I've started writing a bash script to connect to this server, so I won't have to type out the entire address every time, but I…
Tomas Aschan
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Convert Text File Encoding
I frequently encounter text files (such as subtitle files in my native language, Persian) with character encoding problems. These files are created on Windows, and saved with an unsuitable encoding (seems to be ANSI), which looks gibberish and…
Seyed Mohammad
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Cannot delete/move files with special characters in file name
As you can see below the files have uncommon characters.
Deleting them either in the terminal or Dolphin returns the error:
No such file or directory
Running ls -la on the directory gave me this output:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 aalap aalap 0 Nov 14…
karjedavpalaa
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How to unzip a Japanese ZIP file, and avoid mojibake/garbled characters
I received a ZIP file from a Japanese customer.
When I try to unzip it the file and folders names are messed up:
$ unzip ~/Downloads/【新入荷ECM】資料.zip
...
inflating: БyРVУ№Й╫ECMБzОСЧ┐/123_ГЖБ[ГXГPБ[ГX.xlsx
What is the problem, and how to avoid it?
Nicolas Raoul
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Convert DVD to MKV (et al) without transcoding/recompression
Like a lot of people, I have a lot of DVDs. But we also have a stupid amount of disk space and a media centre (Boxee) so the DVDs are getting less and less use. It would be nice to convert our DVDs into something more relevant to our needs.
I've…
Oli
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Running a script created in Notepad (Windows) on Ubuntu
I created a Notepad file on Windows and copied it to Ubuntu. The file contains some iptables rules. After making the file executable using chmod +x and executing it, it didn't work.
However, when I created a Ubuntu (gedit) file and copied the same…
Albert
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How to rename file names to different encoding?
I have 3 types of file name encodings on reiserfs mounted hard drive: CP1251, KOI-8, UTF-8 and ASCII. I really need to convert all encodings to UTF-8, recursively. Is there any utility, which will detect source encoding and convert it to UTF-8 or I…
Pablo
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How do I install the opus audio encoder?
I would like to try out the opus audio encoder, but can't find it in the repositories. Can anyone here help me get it installed on my computer? I have some wav files which I would like to convert to the opus audio format.
However, I have found…
oshirowanen
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What players do support flac files with embeded cue sheet?
I recently got some FLAC files with embeded cue sheet. Though, the info of the sheet file doesn't seem to show up in Rhythmbox; Banshee; Amarok or Audatious. Which media players support this kind of file?
Pedro Rolo
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ubuntu å vs osx å?
Not sure if this is a ubuntu or osx question, but I'll start here. I'll leave it to the mods to move the question to AskDifferent if more apropriate.
I moved a file from ubuntu to osx using scp on the apple machine.
I edited the file on the apple…
azzid
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How to read ANSI encoded files in the right way?
I have some files that Ubuntu can't read it ( ANSI encoding ) but Windows can read it well.
When I open it in gedit or notepad++ it seems like this :
Êã ÇáÊÍæíá áÜÜ
How can I make Ubuntu read ANSI encoded files well?
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Why does apache2 default to LANG=C instead of UTF8 or system default
The 10-year-old comment in /etc/apache2/envvars simply says "The locale used by some modules like mod_dav", but why can't mod_dav be fixed to also handle a better LANG setting for the rest of apache?
Collin Anderson
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Character encoding problem with filenames - find broken filenames
I have the problem described in this Q&A. Probably from quite old linux distros or from windows I have several files with broken filenames. ls displays a "?" instead of the broken character. I successfully renamed some of these files, but I don't…
lumbric
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