When working with text files on Windows, you may sometimes be troubled by garbled text or differences in character ...

When you open a CSV file, the Japanese characters are unreadable. Even if you look up "convert to UTF-8" or "add a BOM," it ...

It all started as a JFS bug report. The JFS filesystem, it seems, gets upset when user space passes it file names encoded in the UTF-8 format. Rather than create or open a file with the name as given, ...

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 ...

A business writes a 150-character appointment reminder, adds one emoji to make it friendlier, and discovers that ...

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 ...

If special characters are not displaying correctly in Microsoft Outlook on your Windows 11/10 PC, this post will help you fix the issue. Special characters, such as accented letters, currency symbols, ...

« 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 ...

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 ...