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Encoding is changing a sequence of characters to symbols.

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I have an application that needs the codepage changed to ISO 8859-15. Changing the codepage at the command prompt with chcp works and text is read correctly. However the application in question is not ...
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I have been using a FOSS software written in perl (sql-ledger) for many many years. Currently self hosted on CentOS 7. For some reasons, I need to update OS to a higher version (preferably Rocky/Alma ...
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The essence of the problem is that when sending an html letter with formatted text inserted from another source containing non-Latin letters (for example, copied text from a web page in Polish), the ...
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I‘m sending a mail encoded with quoted printable encoding that contains some dots .. There is a problem with a specific mailserver/customer. For some reason, they receive the mail in such a form that ...
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How can I get Apache to serve pre-compresses Brotli files? With Chrome I am getting net::ERR_CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED 200 I made my pre-compressed .br (Brotli) files from minimized .html files (.min....
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Problem Suppose we have a compressed archive on disk, e.g. file.tar.gz, which should be served as-is. The file is served with Content-Type: application/gzip, but for some reason the server also adds a ...
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I want to implement something like the following in our Apache httpd configuration: <If "%{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !~ /something/"> RemoveEncoding .gz .tgz AddType ...
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To my understanding the default mail server on Ubuntu is Postfix. I have Virtualmin and Webmin installed on my Ubuntu installation. I'm trying to figure out where to configure encoding for sending and ...
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A lot of domains hosted by Namecheap contain strange DNS TXT records that appear to be base64 encoded, that when decoded look like a weird kind of MX record - having the structure of both a priority ...
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I run several servers, one for development, one for client testing and another for production. I have a character encoding issue (the old "question marks in diamonds" appearing instead of ...
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Problem The NFS-Client of Windows10 Pro mount an NFS-share with lang=ansi by default. This causing problems using filenames with umlauts or asian characters (e.g. Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana, etc). ...
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After copying files from MacOS system to Windows share through samba, I got filenames like: Сђ•вл К†в†ЂЃ¶≠л• Ђ®бвл.pdf П†бѓЃав.doc And normally they should look like: Сметы Каталожные листы.pdf ...
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I host a webpage that has 'project²' in the URL, matching an on-disk directory project² from where static files are hosted. This page is used by a java-based client to load data from URLs (...
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I've got a Linux server with some directories and files structure on it. Apparently somehow someone uploaded a bunch of filenames, which got corrupted. Consider the following example: └── parent ├─...
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I have a buch of files on a Linux machine that are using invalid filenames. I tried using the "detox" ultility, as well as convmv and recode, but they keep failing with the error recode: fopen (Entw�...

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