How-to articles, tricks, and solutions about CHARACTER-ENCODING
Best way to convert string to bytes in Python 3?
In Python 3, you can convert a string to bytes using the bytes function.
Getting ’ instead of an apostrophe(') in PHP
This can occur if your PHP code is using the ISO-8859-1 character set instead of UTF-8.
How to convert Strings to and from UTF8 byte arrays in Java
To convert a String to a UTF-8 encoded byte array in Java, you can use the getBytes method of the String class and specify the character encoding as "UTF-8".
Setting the default Java character encoding
To set the default character encoding for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), you can use the -Dfile.encoding option when starting the JVM.
UTF8 Encoding problem - With good examples
UTF-8 is a character encoding that represents each character in a text document as a unique numerical code.
Working with UTF-8 encoding in Python source
Here is a code snippet that demonstrates how to work with UTF-8 encoding in a Python source file: