How to change Encoding in Excel or Word

Ever opened a file and seen strange symbols or jumbled text? This post shows how to change the character encoding in Excel or ...
InfoWorld

Overhauling the Java UTF-8 charset

The UTF-8 charset implementation, which is available in all JDK/JRE releases from Sun, has been updated recently to reject non-shortest-form UTF-8 byte sequences. This is because the old ...
Houston Chronicle

UTF-8 Encoding for Excel Using Java

Typically, using standard formats when programming can help you migrate information between different programs. Using the Comma Separated Value file format, for example, lets you create lists of data ...
InfoWorld

Java source code could switch to UTF-8 encoding

The current state of ‘ill-defined encoding’ creates unnecessary problems when working with the JDK codebase, an OpenJDK proposal says. Source code for the Java Development Kit (JDK) would be redone in ...
Bleeping Computer

Windows 10 Notepad is Getting Better UTF-8 Encoding Support

In the latest Windows 10 Insider build, Microsoft has released a new version of Notepad that includes changes that bring it closer to what we have come to expect from modern text file editors. These ...
GitHub

Bad knitr::purl() to file UTF-8 encoding

RStudio is explicitly set to store rmd files in UTF-8. I verified with Notepad++ that test.rmd file is indeed in UTF-8. I want to extract the R-code from this file in a temporary file: ...
GitHub

Use narrow UTF-8 as the canonical encoding for paths on Windows

The Native SDK uses narrow UTF-8 encoding throughout the code base as the canonical string encoding. The only exception to this rule is the strings representing paths on Windows, which use wide ...
Ars Technica

PHP CSV Parser... Null chars.. [Resolved] UTF-8 Encoding Convert

I am trying to parse a tab delimited CSV file. The output in my file is <BR><BR> <pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> U[]N[]... </pre> <BR><BR>The [] are null blocks of ...