I've changed the encoding from Eclipse but all my strings with special characters now are like this "�". The old encoding was the Default (Cp1252), now it is UTF-8. How can I fix the strings with special characters?
Thanks.
Well, imagine you switch your brain to only understand Chinese. Could you read an English text anymore?
You changed the way Eclipse interprets the bits of your sourcecode. So you need to translate the sourcecode from Cp1252 to UTF-8.
I don't know if Eclipse is able to do this, but Notepad++ is.
Open a java-file you want to change the encoding of in Notepad++.
Click on Encoding
Select Convert to UTF-8
Save the file
When you now click on Encoding again, there should be a dot in front of Encode in UTF-8
Edit: Notepad++ recognizes the used encoding, so you can read it there. Copy and Paste from Notepad++ to Eclipse won't work, because you copied the same string Eclipse couldn't read. You have to change the encoding of the string.
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I have two related problems. I'm working on Arabic dataset using Excel. I think that Excel somehow reads the contents as ؟؟؟؟؟ , because when I tried to replace this character '؟' with this '?' it replaces the whole text in the sheet. But when I replace or search for another letter it works.
Second, I'm trying to edit the sheet using python, but I'm unable to write Arabic letters (I'm using jGRASP). For example when I write the letter 'ل' it appears as 0644, and when I run the code this message appears : "ُError encoding text. Unable to encode text using charset windows-1252 ".
0644 is the character code of the character in hex. jGRASP displays that when the font does not contain the character. You can use "Settings" > "Font" in jGRASP to choose a CSD font that contains the characters you need. Finding one that has those characters and also works well as a coding font might not be possible, so you may need to switch between two fonts.
jGRASP uses the system character encoding for loading and saving files by default. Windows-1252 is an 8-bit encoding used on English language Windows systems. You can use "File" > "Save As" to save the file with the same name but a different encoding (charset). Once you do that, jGRASP will remember it (per file) and you can load and save normally. Alternately, you can use "Settings" > "CSD Windows Settings" > "Workspace" and change the "Default Charset" setting to make the default something other than the system default.
I have been reading quite some posts including this one
Javascript export CSV encoding utf-8 issue
I know lots mentioned it's because of microsoft excel that using something like this should work
https://superuser.com/questions/280603/how-to-set-character-encoding-when-opening-excel
I have tried on ubuntu (which didn't even have any issue), on windows10, which I have to use the second posts to import, on mac which has the biggest problem because mac does not import, does not read the unicode at all.
Is there anyway I can do it in coding while exporting to enforce excel to open with utf-8? or some other workaround I might be able to try?
Thanks in advance for any help and suggestions.
Many Windows applications, including Excel, assume the localized ANSI encoding (Windows-1252 on US Windows) when opening a file, unless the file starts with byte-order-mark (BOM) code point. While UTF-8 doesn't need a BOM, a UTF-8-encoded BOM at the start of a file clues Excel that the file is UTF-8. The byte sequence is EF BB BF and the equivalent Unicode code point is U+FEFF.
i believe i have similar problem to this how to convert unicode text to utf8 text readable? but i want a python 3.7 solution to it
i am a complete newbie, i have some experience with python so i am trying to use it to make a script that will convert a Unicode file into the previous readable text it was.
the file is a bookmark file i have recovered using easeusa then i opened the bookmark file and it is writen in unicode something like "&PŽ¾³kÊ
k-7ÄÜÅe–?XBdyÃ8߯r×»Êã¥bÏñ ¥»X§ÈÕÀ¬Zé‚1öÄEdýŽ‹€†.c"
whereas previously is said something like " "checksum": "112d56adbd0caa2b3693bb0442dd16ff",
"roots": {
"bookmark_bar": {
"children":"
fyi when i click save as for the unicode bookmark file, for unicode it has ANSI and not utf-8 maybe it was saved us ANSI, i might be waffling here but i'm just trying to give you all the information you might need to help me
i am a newbie who depressingly need help
This text isn't "Unicode". It's simply gibberish.
This file has been corrupted -- it may have been overwritten with other data before you were able to recover it. It is unlikely to be recoverable.
I have a CSV file with special accents and save it in Notepad by selecting UTF-8 encoding. When I read the file using Java, it reads the BOM characters too.
So I want to save this file in UTF-8 format without appending a BOM initially in Notepad.
Otherwise, is there a built-in class in Java that eliminates the BOM characters that present at beginning, when reading the contents in a file?
Use Notepad++ - it is free and much better than Notepad. It will help to save text without a BOM using Encoding → Encode in UTF-8 without BOM: Notepad++ v6 and olders:
Notepad++ v7+:
When I encountered this problem in Java, I didn't find any library to parse these first three bytes (BOM). So my advice:
Use PushbackInputStream(in, 3).
Read the first three bytes
If it's not BOM (EF BB BF), push them back
Process the stream as UTF-8
I just learned from this Stack Overflow post, as #martin-geisler points out, that you can save files without the BOM in Windows Notepad, by selecting ANSI as the encoding.
I'm assuming that for more advanced uses this won't work because the resulting file is probably not the end encoding wished, but actually ANSI; but I tested and confirmed this works to save a very small .php script without BOM using only Notepad.
I learned the long, hard way that Windows' Notepad is not a true editor, although I'd like to point out for others that, despite this, it is misleadingly called up when you type "editor" on newer Windows machines, at least on one of mine.
I am currently using Emacs and other editors to solve this problem.
Use Notepad++ instead. See my personal blog post on it. From within Notepad++, choose the "Encoding" menu, then "Encode in UTF-8 without BOM".
Notepad on Windows 10 version 1903 (May 2019 update) and later versions supports saving to UTF-8 without a BOM. In fact, UTF-8 is the default file format now.
Reference: Windows 10 Notepad is Getting Better UTF-8 Encoding Support
The answer is: Not at all. Notepad can't do that.
In Java you can just skip the first byte in your InputStream and be done.
You might want to try out Notepad2 or Notepad++. Those Notepad replacements have the option for you to choose whether to output BOM.
As for a Java solution, as far as I know, Java does not understand the standard UTF-8. I googled and found Java's UTF-8 and Unicode writing is broken - Use this fix that might be the solution.
We're using the utility BOMStripperInputStream.java to strip the BOM from our input if present.
I'm trying to create a webpage in Chinese and I realized that while the text looks fine when I run it on browsers, once I change the Character Encoding, the text becomes gibberish. Here's what's happening:
I create my html file in Emacs, encoded in UTF-8.
I upload it to the server, and view it on my browsers (FF, IE, Chrome, Opera) - no problem.
I try to view the page in other encodings via FF > View > Character Encoding > All those different Chinese encoding systems, e.g. Chinese Simplified (HZ)
Apart from UTF-8, on every other encoding the text becomes gibberish.
I'm assuming this isn't a problem - i.e. browsers are smart enough to know which encoding the page is in, and parse the content accurately. What I'm wondering is why I can't read the Chinese text anymore once I change encoding - is it because I don't have Chinese fonts installed on my OS? Should I stick to UTF-8 if my audience are Chinese or should I choose among one of their many encoding systems?
Thanks in advance for your help/opinions.
UTF isn't a 'catch-all' encoding. It's designed to contain international language character symbols for ease of use, but it is still an encoding, just like the other encodings you've selected. You would have to retype the text in each encoding to make it appear correctly when viewed with that encoding.
Viewer encoding MUST match the file being read. Viewing UTF-8 as something other makes about same sense as renaming .txt to .exe and trying to run it.
You should specify correct encoding in HTML. The option you're using in web browser exist only for those rare occasions when web developer screwed up his job and declared other encoding than actually used OR mixed up 2 different encodings on one page.
Of course changing the encoding in your browser will "break" the text! The browser is taking the stream of UTF-8 codepoints and tries to force another encoding on the raw data. Needless to say, the result ain't pretty. Changing the encoding in the browser is NOT the equivalent of converting.
As you surmised correctly, modern browsers usually guess correctly -- but not always. As Agent_L make sure to declare the encoding in the headers.