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Lowercase all but the first (Uppercase) letter from UPPERCASE in cyrillic
To make all letters a lower case except the first letter. The first letter would look like "Uppercase" after I changed (from UPPERCASE in cyrillic). The rest (not UPPERCASED) leave unchanged.
I'm ...
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how to guess and rename file from deleted rar has invalid encoding
i have many files and folders that extracted from many rar from jdownloader, and deleted after extract, some of it names are:
�������[�ς݂��ς݂� - �Ȃ��ꂭ������ (invalid encoding)
�R�e���} (invalid ...
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What are the implications of setting LC_ALL on Solaris
To support an application we just installed, I've been asked to add this command to the /etc/profile file on our Solaris 10 UNIX server:
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8; export LC_ALL
The effect of this changes ...
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Vim powerline with broken encoding
I trying to learn using vim, I am enjoining a lot, but I copied the vimrc from github and I would like to understand what is causing the break of powerline encoding.
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In the vimrc file I have: set ...
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How to specify attachment encoding in mutt command line?
I'm trying to send an email with attachment from a perl script.
First, I create the attachment (an xml file):
open(XMLFILE, ">:utf8", $xmlfile);
print XMLFILE "<?xml version=\"1.0\" ...
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Characters encodings supported by more, cat and less
I have a text file encoded as following according to file:
ISO-8859 text, with CRLF line terminators
This file contains French's text with accents. My shell is able to display accent and emacs ...
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Convert ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 using OSX' .bash_profile
When running certain rails scripts in OSX' Terminal, I get warnings such as the following:
unable to convert "\xA9" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for ...
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Polish chars in gedit (Fedora 18)
I locked my Fedora18 computer (set to Polish). Later I couldn't log in (password was accepted, but I didn't see my desktop). I used pkill -KILL -u tymon command in root mode (Ctrl+Alt+f2).
After ...
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Search in evolution does not find umlaut in different encoding
I use Evolution 3.6.4 on Fedora 18 x86_64, my main language is German.
I got a mail (on my imapx account) encoded in iso-8859-15 with the word "hügelig" in it. The mail is displayed correctly in ...
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Change default Encoding in Terminator
The Title stays pretty much for itself.
Tried to figure it out myself but I can´t find a config-setting nor a option in the Preferences for the Encoding.
Does anybody know how to change the default ...
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Encoding of a zip file
When I extract some file (mp3) with japanese or korean characters within its filename on Windows, they appear normally, but when I extract it on Linux (Ubuntu/Mint) they appear as something like this
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What would break if the C locale was UTF-8 instead of ASCII?
The C locale is defined to use the ASCII charset and POSIX does not provide a way to use a charset without changing the locale as well.
What would happen if the encoding of C were switched to UTF-8 ...
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Same file, different filename due to encoding problem?
I was about to diff a backup from it's source to manually verify that the data is correct. Some chars, like åäö, is not shown correctly on the original data but as the clients (over samba) interpret ...
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Square instead of characters
I've just installed Sabayon, but after the update and reboot I saw every character as a square, in every programme, so is impossible for me doing anything, what could be and what should I do?
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view file containing ISO-8859 text, CRLF line terminators, and escape sequences
I have stumbled upon a strange text file in an archive of an old dos game downloaded from some abandonware site.
The text file is named WHY_NOT.TXT. I assume the file is some sort of .NFO file from ...
