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  00000000  68 65 6c 6c c3 b6 20 77  6f 72 6c 64 0a          |hell.. world.|
 
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This means, every "normal" character has been stored in 1 byte, every umlaut in 2 bytes. That is unicode's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 UTF-8 encoding]
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This means, every "normal" character has been stored in 1 byte, every umlaut in 2 bytes. That is unicode's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 UTF-8 encoding].
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To show what Qt understands when it reads UTF8, we store a file with the content
 
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nothing else. The following code outputs the code:
 
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QFile inputfile(args->url(0).fileName());
 
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inputfile.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly);
 
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inputfilecontent = inputfile.read(inputfile.bytesAvailable());
 
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kDebug() << "inputfilecontent.data()[0]"<<(byte)inputfilecontent.data()[0];
 
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kDebug() << "inputfilecontent.data()[1]"<<(byte)inputfilecontent.data()[1];
 
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For little endian systems, &uuml; UTF8 encoded delivers
 
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= Doing =
 
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Unicode text editor:
 
Unicode text editor:
 
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= Configuration =
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For [[php]]: /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini, key default_charset.
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For [[squirrelmail]]: set default_charset in config.php and config_default.php to UTF8.
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= See also =
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* [http://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?start=256&utf8=0x&unicodeinhtml=hex&htmlent=1 Unicode character table]
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* [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html Joel on UniCode]
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[[Category:Concept]]

Latest revision as of 20:00, 1 January 2012

Understanding

Clearly, every text file has an encoding, that means, you must know if two bytes form one character to display, one byte, or the characters have mixed byte length. Unicode defines every character in the world.

Here is some practice: Store a file containing 

hellö world

in file.txt. Do: 

tweedleburg:~ # cat >file.txt
hellö world
tweedleburg:~ # cat file.txt
hellö world
tweedleburg:~ # hexdump -C file.txt
00000000  68 65 6c 6c c3 b6 20 77  6f 72 6c 64 0a           |hell.. world.|
0000000d

This means, every "normal" character has been stored in 1 byte, every umlaut in 2 bytes. That is unicode's UTF-8 encoding.

Doing

Convert a file to UTF-8 

convmv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf8 -r --notest <datei>
recode latin1..u8 <datei>

Unicode text editor:

  • yudit

Configuration

For php: /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini, key default_charset.

For squirrelmail: set default_charset in config.php and config_default.php to UTF8.

See also

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