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What is the UTF-8 encoding?

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UTF-8 stands for Unicode (or UCS) Transformation Format, 8-bit encoding form. It is a transmission format for Unicode that uses 8-bit code units.
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What is UTF-8 Character Encoding in WebMail?

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Outbound messages sent from WebMail are fully standards compliant with The Unicode Standard, the Internationally recognized standard for multilingual communication on the Internet and all modern computer systems worldwide. Unicode ensures that the characters you use in your message are the same characters that the recipient of your message sees.
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How can I convert from UTF-8 to another encoding?

Perl-XML Frequently Asked Questions
If you are outputting XML, but for some reason do not wish to use UTF-8 (perhaps your editor does not support it), you can convert all characters beyond position 127 to numeric entities with a regular expression like this: use utf8; # Only needed for 5.6, not 5.8 or later s/([\x{80}-\x{FFFF}])/'&#' . ord($1) . ';'/gse; Andreas Koenig has supplied an alternative regular expression: s/([^\x20-\x7F])/'&#' . ord($1) . ';'/gse; This version does not require 'use utf8' with Perl 5.
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What is the purpose of the option Oracle UTF-8 Encoding and why should I change it from DEFAULT?

TOYS Frequently Asked Questions
This option determines the value that TOYS uses to set the NLS_LANG environment variable. This variable is used by the Oracle drivers and works as follows. If the character set specified by this variable is the same as the database character set then no character set conversion is performed. This is the most efficient means of operation.
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Why don't you use UTF-8 character encoding?

FAQ - Open Clip Art Library Wiki
The SVG files are supposed to be in UTF-8, and almost all of them are. However, the upload script does not correctly handle non-ASCII characters in the metadata, so we often have to manually fix the files (which will delay their entry into the collection). An effort is underway to address this issue during the spring of 2005.
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How do I set up UTF-8 encoding for MÄ?ori long vowels?

Web Guidelines FAQ - New Zealand E-government Programme
Ensure that your web server can server UTF-8 encoded pages. For Apache, change the default charset to UTF-8 by adding AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 to the configuration file. Edit your documents and templates, and ensure that you have the following metatag set in the <head>: Insert Macrons using a Unicode compatible editor. This should insert actual UTF-8 characters. For example, a macron a is encoded 0xC40x81. Use HTML entities. For example, a macron a is coded as &#257.
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How do I get UTF-8?

Tomcat FAQ - Miscellaneous Questions
It is not broken, your tag probably is. Many bug reports have been filed about this. Here is the bug report with all the gory details.
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Perl-XML Frequently Asked Questions
Since Unicode supports character positions higher than 256, a representation of those characters will obviously require more than one 8-bit byte. There is more than one system for representing Unicode characters as byte sequences. UTF-8 is one such system. It uses a variable number of bytes (from 1 to 4 according to RFC3629) to represent each character. This means that the most common characters (ie: 7 bit ASCII) only require one byte.
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UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ
UCS and Unicode are first of all just code tables that assign integer numbers to characters. There exist several alternatives for how a sequence of such characters or their respective integer values can be represented as a sequence of bytes. The two most obvious encodings store Unicode text as sequences of either 2 or 4 bytes sequences. The official terms for these encodings are UCS-2 and UCS-4, respectively.
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What is "encoding"?

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Encoding refers to the process of compressing .WAV files into a much smaller MP3 (or other compressed audio) format. Once you have ripped a song from your CD, you must then encode the .WAV file to an MP3 file. The file will be reduced to approximately one twelfth of its original size while maintaining it's original perceived audio quality.
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Frequently Asked Questions: MP3 Audio
The process of converting from WAV or a higher quality audio file format to an MP3 or lower quality audio format. A series of compressions allow for the larger file to be "squashed" to a smaller sized file without losing very much sound quality. Check out our list of Encoders.
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How to you handle UTF-8?

Grapeshot - Developer - FAQs
Grapeshot has a very professional approach to a multitude of character sets. Grapeshot indexing routines identify the character set in use within a document and introduces appropriate stemming routines as part of tokenising the words or phrases within the incoming text. Tokenisation includes word splitting or character separation, as well as dealing with the ideosyncracies of punctuation within each language.
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What is audio encoding?

Cinram - DVD Frequently Asked Questions
Like video encoding, audio signals can also be compressed so that they take up much less space than they would normally. However, while the philosophy is the same as video encoding, much of the process is specific to audio and requires specialized hardware and software and is often done in a completely separate environment from the video encoding.
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What can I do with a UTF-8 string?

Perl-XML Frequently Asked Questions
You could obviously convert a UTF-8 encoded string to some other encoding, but before we get on to that, let's look at what you can do with it in its 'natural state'. If you wish to display the string in a web browser, no conversion is necessary. Modern browsers can understand UTF-8 directly, as can be seen on this page on the kermit project web site (some characters in the page will not display correctly without the correct fonts installed but that's a font issue rather than an encoding issue).
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What is the definition of UTF-8?

FAQ - UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 & BOM
UTF-8 is the byte-oriented encoding form of Unicode. For details of its definition, see Section 2.5 “Encoding Forms” and Section 3.9 “ Unicode Encoding Forms ” in the Unicode Standard. See, in particular, Table 3-5 UTF-8 Bit Distribution and Table 3-6 Well-formed UTF-8 Byte Sequences, which give succinct summaries of the encoding form. Also see sample code which implements conversions between UTF-8 and other encoding forms.
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Who invented UTF-8?

UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ
The encoding known today as UTF-8 was invented by Ken Thompson. It was born during the evening hours of 1992-09-02 in a New Jersey diner, where he designed it in the presence of Rob Pike on a placemat (see Rob Pike's UTF-8 history).
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So how do we get invalid UTF-8 sequences into an Oracle database?

TOYS Frequently Asked Questions
The most common cause is the move towards UTF-8 as the database character set. This is a good idea but unfortunately there appear to be implementation issues which need to be resolved. Basically, if the character set on the client is set to the same as the character set on the server then Oracle does not validate that the character data passed to it is actually valid.
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What is the difference between UTF-8, UTF-16?

ISO
UTF-8 uses variable byte to store a Unicode. In different code range, it has its own code length, varies from 1 byte to 6 bytes. Because it varies from 8 bits (1 byte), it is so called "UTF-8". UTF-8 is suitable for using on Internet, networks or some kind of applications that needs to use slow connection. Unicode (or UCS) Transformation Format, 16-bit encoding form.
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How do I turn on UTF-8 support in the client?

SILC Secure Internet Live Conferencing
You can give /set term_type command to see what encoding is currently used. If it is something else than "utf-8" you can turn on the UTF-8 by giving command /set term_type utf-8. Your terminal naturally need to support UTF-8 properly. In SILC all text messages are UTF-8 encoded, and the client is able to display the message correctly even if your terminal does not support UTF-8. However, if your terminal supports UTF-8 you should turn it on with /set term_type utf-8 command.
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When would using UTF-8 be the right approach?

FAQ - Programming Issues
If the Unicode data your program will be handling is all or predominantly in UTF-8 (for example, HTML) then it may make sense to simply continue using char datatypes and char* pointers and to work directly in UTF-8.
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What is the filename encoding?

gtk-gnutella - The Graphical Unix Gnutella Client
gtk-gnutella use UTF-8 as default encoding for filenames. If your locale setting does not use UTF-8, other applications may not display these filenames correctly or may have problems accessing them in the worst case. You can change the encoding using the environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING. This affects most applications that use Gtk+ or GLib.
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What is RACE Encoding?

OnlineNIC: Frequently Asked Questions
RACE Encoding is the system used to translate languages into a common format that is easier for computers to store. It is represented as a string of numbers, letters, and dashes. All multilingual domains will be stored in this format for use in Internet computers and systems. There are no restrictions on registering a domain name in another character set. As long as the name is determined to be available,it is eligible to be registered.
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What is this encoding process all about?

InnerTalk - Frequently Ask Questions
On one channel, accessing the left brain, meaningfully spoken, permissive affirmations (such as, "It's OK to succeed. It's OK to do well.") are delivered. On a second channel, accessing the right brain, directive messages (such as, "I am good. I succeed. I do well.") are delivered in reverse, to be recognized by the right brain's unique spatial understanding. The channel-differentiated messages shadow each other from conscious recognition.
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What is BinHex encoding?

File format using 64 ASCII characters to encode the six bit binary data values 0-63. Because Base64 must be used in conjunction with MIME, this option is disabled if Use MIME is not selected in the Attachments tab of Mailbox properties. Macintosh format for representing a binary file using only printable characters. The file is converted to lines of letters, numbers and punctuation.
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What is an encoding scheme?

GovTalk – Frequently Asked Questions
Encoding schemes are used to regulate the value of an element. They provide contextual information or parsing rules that help interpret a term value. These include controlled vocabularies, such as IPSV, or requirements that values be formatted according to a recognised standard, such as YYYY-MM-DD for date formats.
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What is RCE encoding?

DVDWorldUSA.com
Some region 1 titles from Columbia Tristar have an encoding called 'Regional Coding Enhancement' (RCE). This will prevent the DVD from playing on some multi-region or region-free DVD players. In general, any multi-region player that has the option for you to manually choose the regional setting will not be affected by RCE. Please make sure that your player can handle this encoding before ordering, as we are unable to accept any returns due to RCE.
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What is document encoding?

Introduction to Automated Document Processing - Valora Techn...
Document encoding, also called indexing, is the process of creating a database of bibliographic information about a set of documents. Bibliographic information covers information about the document, such as its title, its creation date and its author. Historically, trained paralegals and legal temp workers performed this task by hand. Automated encoding uses sophisticated computer software to accomplish the same process, but much more quickly and at a lower cost.
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How do we get our content to you for encoding?

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You will mail, UPS or FedEx us your edited video(s) in "uncompressed" AVI format on a Mini-DV tape or Beta SP tape. Please contact the sales department or your reseller for details.
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