If the encoding of character data is unknown, there is no simple way to automatically establish it. If you know what the text is supposed to represent, you can perhaps infer it, but this is typically a …

An encoding type of 7BIT requires that the body is already in a seven-bit mail- ready representation. This is the default value -- that is, "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT" is …

This isn't really a programming question, is there a command line or Windows tool (Windows 7) to get the current encoding of a text file? Sure I can write a little C# app but I wanted to know if th...

14.11 Content-Encoding The Content-Encoding entity-header field is used as a modifier to the media-type. When present, its value indicates what additional content codings have been …

A character-encoding scheme is a mapping between one or more coded character sets and a set of octet (eight-bit byte) sequences. UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO 2022, and EUC are examples of …

Character encoding is a very central and basic necessity for internationalization. For computer communication, characters have to be encoded into bytes. There are very simple encodings, …

Note: This answer applies to Windows PowerShell (the legacy, ships-with-Windows, Windows-only edition of PowerShell whose latest and last version is 5.1); by contrast, in the cross …

5.2.2 Specifying the character encoding How does a server determine which character encoding applies for a document it serves? Some servers examine the first few bytes of the document, …

I've copied certain files from a Windows machine to a Linux machine. All the files encoded with Windows-1252 need to be converted to UTF-8. The files which are already in UTF-8 should …

Feb 26, 2014 · A character encoding declaration is also needed to process non-ASCII characters entered by the user in forms, in URLs generated by scripts, and so forth. This article describes …