When I opened a text file in PowerShell, the Japanese characters turned into unrecognizable symbols.Even though it looked ...

I run a task that generates and posts music at a set time every week.One day, the "Last Run Result" in Task Scheduler was 0, ...

You say that the only practical choices for character encodings are ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8. In fact, there is a vast range of encodings that will work (basically any encoding that doesn't use NUL and '/ ...

One of the biggest problems you encounter in using Ajax is the dreaded character encoding. No matter what data format you select, the data is actually transmitted as text. But it isn't as simple as ...

QR codes have been with us for a long time now, and after passing through their Gardenesque hype cycle of inappropriate usage, have now settled down to be an important and ubiquitous part of life. If ...

JavaScript has Unicode support and all JavaScript strings are UTF-16 coded - this has some unexpected results for any programmer under the impression that they can assume that one character is one ...

It seems to me like this would be a perfect place for either FUSE, or a "settable" policy mechanism within the kernel. Even that can get hairy, of course, for many and varied reasons, but it would ...