Questions tagged [encoding]
The fine art of converting letters into numbers. ASCII, ISO Latin-1, Unicode, EBCDIC… There are dozens of currently used encodings and converting between them is now a witch craft.
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Can I fix this encoding issue with a copy and pasted .p12 Certificate?
Wondering if there is a work around, whether it be from advanced settings in Gmail or another text editor or command line fix for a pretty stupid issue.
I hastily opened a .p12 Certificate in Notepad, ...
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How to create URI to open hardcoded text/plain content in web browser?
First question, is it even possible to write a URI (presumably http://) that will make a browser display some plaintext content, where the content is hardcoded into the URI itself (aka not served by a ...
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Mixed UTF-16BE strings with ANSI in content stream of a PDF page object
I am working on generation of PDF on the fly tool, with custom chosen local font.
Embeeding the font is not a problem, and been proven that font been found w/o problem.
However, the font is Chinese, ...
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UTF-8 Decoders fail to decode the encoded strings
I have some encoded values values which I believe is UTF-8. Now I dont really know if it is UTF-8 or not because other online tool and steps to decode UTF-8 is not working, BUT an open source tool ...
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How to convert UTF-8 to ANSI
(note that I posted a previous iteration of my question in stack overflow)
Hello there, I am trying to change multiple files from UTF-8 to ANSI in Notepad. My goal is change them to ANSI like my ...
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Why am I getting pixelated videos in FFmpeg when converting to a GIF?
I want to encode this WEBM video:
https://buggem.github.io/connecting.webm
I have been noticing the fact that FFmpeg has been played up when it comes to quality.
I am doing WEBM to GIF, if that ...
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Want to understand encoding with Opus for maximum audio quality in FFmpeg. Bitrate stuck at 96kbps?
I'm sort of new to FFmpeg, but I got much of the basics down. I am trying to understand how to encode audio with Opus. My knowledge is a bit weak when it comes to audio, bitrates, sample rate and Hz.
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What's a good way to encode a file name for caching a video thumbnail?
I'm writing a previewer script for lf using chafa to display preview images as sixels.
I'm writing the part of the script for previewing videos, and decided to just display the first frame of the ...
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Encoding issues over SSH characters shown as ~@~X in vim
I am having issues when viewing a file through SSH
I have 2 computers connected to each other myServer 'myHost' , sharing over 'SSH' a session.
On myServer I have got a log from wget which originates ...
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Thunderbird Rendering UTF-8 Emails Incorrectly
I imported all of my Outlook emails into Thunderbird. Since then, I've noticed that many of the emails render incorrectly - for example - reason appears as reason�.
Inspecting the source, these issues ...
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Firefox versus Opera
I am using Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon and have a question about browsers URL encoding.
When I navigate using Firefox 123.0 (64-bit) and go to a page having "special characters" and I copy the ...
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Complex ffmpeg multi-encode/streamcopy/muxing scenario: is this actually doable?
I'm trying to do multiple muxing/re-encode/copy operations on an input video with ffmpeg and have run into roadblocks with the methods I've tried; before I continue testing, I want to confirm whether ...
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Constructing encoding statements using ffmpeg QSV and Intel ARC card
I purchased an Intel ARC A770 with the intent to test hardware encoding with AV1 and HEVC under Linux. Being newer to ffmpeg, I need help constructing ffmpeg statements to engage the Intel QSV ...
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Correct way to encode mixed width text in Unicode?
From what I read, the fullwidth glyphs in Unicode are provided solely for backward compatibility and lossless roundtrip with legacy standards such as Shift-JIS. The rationale seems to be that Unicode ...
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FFmpeg - Use same encoded audio for multiple outputs
I have an input file that I am encoding with multiple output resolutions. I want to use the exact same audio encoding parameters for each output video file (-c:a aac -b:a 64k -ac 1). For a performance ...
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