Encoding is changing a sequence of characters to symbols.
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Best hosted Live Streaming Solution for Internet Radio [closed]
I work for a small ISP and I have a client who was set up on an older streaming server of ours to allow their local radio station to stream live on the internet. The client decided he wanted to be ...
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SubversionEdge and Powergui: ViewVC shows BOM
I am trying to set up SVN repository and since we are limited to Windows as server system here, I chose SubversionEdge as SVN/ViewVC solution.
Unfortunately for some reason all files that are created ...
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Apache encoding and mod-security
Occassionally mod-security is preventing the submission of a form with perfectly normal input. Looking at the mod-security audit log, this seems to be related to a problem with character encodings.
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nginx: how to serve files in gzip format when client accepts “Accept-Encoding: gzip” and inflated otherwise?
I have a folder full of .gz files and would like to serve them transparently inflated if requested by a client that does not send Accept-Encoding: gzip in the request and as-is (gzip'd) otherwise.
I ...
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Outlook web access can't handle urlencoded address
This is related to this question but looking at the exchange side of things.
I'm trying to link to the outlook web access webparts for a shared calendar. The URL to do so is:
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CentOS server bash encoding issue
I think I'm having issues with bash character encoding. The machine is CentOS 6.2 on a rackspace cloud.
For anyone not familiar with npm those characters should be vertical and horizontal ...
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What would prevent IIS 7 from handling a URL including %20
I am dealing with a web server that resets the connection on any URL that includes an encoded space.
e.g. http//somehost/some%20path causes the connection to be reset. I don't think it is permissions ...
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How to prevent IIS 7 to partially decode REQUEST_URI?
I have IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008, with PHP support (5.3.15)
I have noticed a difference compared to an Apache 2 environment, with the content of PHP variable $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'].
Basically, ...
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file control with mime-type
I have a security question regarding the mime types.
I have a website on which users can upload videos. Prior to encoding with ffmpeg, I make a mime-type check to be sure the video file is really a ...
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How can I make “iconv” use “libiconv” instead of “glibc” on CentOS?
I know that there are numerous questions like this, but none the solution I found out there didn't worked for me.
For this one I had my hopes at the top, but it didn't work either.
I did everything ...
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Linux not interpreting UTF8 encoded characters
So, having the following file Adán-y-Eva-50x50.jpg when I try to access it, apache translates it to Ad\xc3\xa1n-y-Eva-50x50.jpg and won't find it, even though it exists.
This happens only for ...
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ProxyPass on httpd breaking encoding
We are sending content with multibyte character data to proxypass, which is converting the characters to %uFFFD when it hits our database.
How do i prevent httpd from messing with the encoding like ...
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Video encoding is very slow on Amazon EC2 instance
We are using Amazon EC2 m1.xlarge instance for video re-encoding and it looks like the actual encoding process takes a very long time.
For an average 250mb video file it takes about an hour to encode.
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Email encoding on IIS7
All emails sent from the server are displaying Cyrillic letters as weird characters, for example: Можно.
Regular alphabet letters are properly rendered.
I searched all across the web but was ...
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nginx $uri is url decoded
I am using nginx as reverse proxy and I have 2 rules like:
location ~ ^/indirect {
rewrite ^/indirect(.*) /foobar$1;
}
location ~ ^/foobar {
set $url ...
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What are these weird request paths on my Apache server? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are these weird access requests?
I'm getting a lot of requests like these in my access.log:
203.186.107.226 - - [16/Oct/2012:07:07:39 +0000] ...
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Bash Redirection Encoding [closed]
I'm trying to use the command base64 somefile.ext to covert files to text. The only problem is that the file size increases by 35%, and that becomes unacceptable for my larger files. I suspect that ...
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Determine the default character encoding in a RedHat system
How do I determine the default character encoding in a RedHat system using the command line? I just want to know what encoding a Java app would use per default if none is specified
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ADSL throughput loss from Reed-Solomon encoding
I'm reading about ADSL starting here and I am confused by how the Reed-Solomon encoding for ECC is limiting the available transfer rate, as much as it does (nearly half). This pdf on the same subject ...
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avconv - not working with movflags
With the Parameter "-movflags frag_custom" my avconv says
[mp4 muxer @ 0x8d05f60] [Eval @ 0x7fffcc763f00] Undefined constant or missing '(' in 'frag_custom'
[mp4 muxer @ 0x8d05f60] Unable to ...
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1answer
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VirtualBox Shared Folder encoding issue
I'm using Ubuntu in Virtualbox and have a shared folder mounted to Virtualbox which i'm accessing inside Ubuntu.
The problem is, that when i'm editing and saving some files from shared folder in ...
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How to deal with certain characters in IIS URL Rewrite
I had a question on how to rewrite a url and had a great answer on the site, and it worked, but there is some characters that I can't find how to encode and iis doesn't like at all
The original ...
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1answer
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Encoding to base32 from the shell
I'm looking to encode an input string to base32 encoding directly from the shell. I'm looking to do this in ubuntu, but I imagine flavor doesn't particularly matter here.
Are there any existing ...
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1answer
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Can PuTTY be configured to display the following UTF-8 characters?
I'd like to be able to render the characters as seen in this tweet:
I saved the tweet's JSON data and wrote a one-liner python script for testing.
python -c 'import json,urllib; print ...
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1answer
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File downloaded with wget has wrong encoding
We have a page on our intranet which is just plain/text encoded in UTF-8 and it contais insert scripts for database. And problem is, when I download this page to a file with wget or curl, my ...
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Why firefox handle urlencode differently with apache mod-rewrite B flag?
Recently I have encontered a strange problem about urlencode, I happened to have a "+" in my both pathinfo and querystring parts of the url.
For exampele:
http://example.com/A + B?s=C + D
I use ...
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1answer
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Setting up trac with PostgreSQL - How to set encoding to UTF8?
So I've been looking to install trac on my debian server with PostgreSQL. I setup everything as per the docs but when trying to run trac-admin /path initenv I get this error for database encoding:
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1answer
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Exchange Server 2010 email encoding
We have just moved to exchange 2010 and have as400 sending emails, when the emails arrive (with french accents examples è é à ù ç) on OWA the accent letter is replaced with a question mark ?
example: ...
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Apache: Override Accept-Language
I have Chinese clients that provide the following in their http request headers:
Accept-Language: zh-cn,zh;q=0.5
This is causing problems with characters being dropped by our load balancer. Is ...
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How do I read a single file in a maildir?
On my Linux development system I use fakemail to write mails to a directory instead of sending them. The mail files contain the headers and the text of the mail as quoted-printable, text/plain in ...
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Mercurial convert filename encoding
I have Mercurial repositories running on Apache with mod_wsgi. Repositories have all filenames encoded in windows-1251. This encoding is used for historically reasons: they were converted to mercurial ...
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Apache convert %20 to \xa9 instead of {space}
When I'm trying to access an url like image%20xyz.jpg, I got a 404 error.
When I look into the logs, Apache converts the %20 into \xa9 (and every url encoded characters are transformed to their \xXY ...
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FFMPEG AAC Encoder Vanished?
I'm running Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS x64. I've been using ffmpeg on this machine to encode H.264 videos with AAC audio for over a year.
There was an update to the ffmpeg packages this week that seems ...
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2answers
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Tell apache to convert LF to CRLF for text/plain
The problem: I want to serve CRLF from files encoded as LF
I have an apache2 httpd linux-based web-server configured to serve up (large) log files (*.log) generated by a linux-based simulator.
These ...
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Umlaut encoding: tar on Mac Lion
I have a tar archive created on an old Unixware machine using ISO8859-1 encoding. When I try to extract it under Macosx Lion, I experience a bit of weirdness with German umlauts. For instance:
I open ...
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How do I enable characters like [Æ, Ø, Å] in PuTTY/Debian?
I'm using VIM through PuTTY to work on my development server, but it gets rather difficult when I have to work on files containing characters like those mentioned in the title. Not only does it make ...
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Apache authentication against LDAP fails for passwords with umlauts
When authenticating against LDAP (Active Directory, Server 2008) from an Apache server I get the following message in the error log:
authentication failure for "/": Password Mismatch
This only ...
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2answers
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filenames encoding problem when migrating a PHP Application from Windows Server 2003 to Linux
I have a couple of PHP applications actually running on Windows 2003 Server. As they are actually using PHP, Mysql and even Apache on Windows, the project is to move them to a new Linux server (Debian ...
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Content Encoding Error on new IIS 7 server with PHP
I recently moved a PHP (Cake framework) development site from an IIS 6 (x86) server to an IIS 7 server (x64). The content is all the same and the URL rewriting works, but on the attempt to display the ...
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1answer
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Outlook Meeting Requests Not Being Re-encoded from Base 64 by Receiving Clients
Exchange 2010 + Outlook 2007. Users send outlook meeting request to a list of recipients both interanlly and externally to the organisation. Some recipients report receiving 'garbled' messages instead ...
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Automatically Transcode Video and Upload to Cloud
I asked this over on superuser, with no luck - I'm hoping serverfault is the more appropriate site.
I'm looking for a solution to take video files from my HD Camera and automate transcoding to a ...
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1answer
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base64 encoded emails
A problem:
Email from my server comes like this:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
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2answers
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Where does the PHP/MySQL connection take its default charset?
I use mysql_connect to a database solely defined in UTF-8. Everywhere I can look in the configuration, I see UTF-8 Unicode (utf8) or utf8_general_ci.
However, when I open the PHP connection, then use ...
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1answer
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MySQL think 'außer' equals to 'auser'
I tried to migrate some tables from one MySQL database to the other, but I encountered an error:
ERROR 1062 (23000) at line 108: Duplicate entry 'außer' for key 'PRIMARY'
And I tried to find why, ...
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3answers
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Python encoding problem
I have a python script that exports data from a mysql utf-8 table into an textfile. Here is the code that does the job
csvDatei = codecs.open( csvDateiName, "w", "utf-8" )
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cursor = db.cursor();
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HUDSON: how to manually encode the LDAP managerPassword?
I need to know how to manually encode the LDAP managerPassword which controls the authentication to hudson:
<securityRealm class="hudson.security.LDAPSecurityRealm">
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Ubuntu 8.04LTS Folder name encoding issue
I will explain my problem from the beginning, I have an Ubuntu server 8.04LTS and I use a Java application with Tomcat 6.0.18 and JRE 1.6. The problem is that the display of characters such as (é è ç ...
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Apache Content-Type encoding changing from UTF-8 to iso-88591 from directory to directory
I have a site running on Apache 2.2.8 (Plesk 9.5.4)
For this site there is a strange behaivor the root directory only has html and it is served with the following header with is great.
...
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Cisco Default Character Encoding on Console
Question
What is the default character encoding used by most Cisco devices when communicating over the console?
Background
I'm a software developer, writing an application that interfaces with ...
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SQL Error (1064) when importing data from SQL file
I have a MySQL database, which was originally set up with the default latin1 character set and latin1_swedish_ci collation. I was using the database like this for sometime, until I noticed strange ...
