Problem: Compiler launched from command line cannot process the source file because of international characters that I’ve just added.

Solution: Save source file explicitly in UTF-8 encoding to preserve international characters.

How To:

* open the problematic file in Visual Studio.
* on the File menu click “Advanced Save Options“
* from “Encoding” combo select “Unicode (UTF-8 …“
* click OK.

You’re set. Commit to please the build server and rest of the team waiting for green.

In the latest Visual Studio 2017 the interface is changed a bit and you have to chose `File -&gt; Save [filename] As…`. Then in the opened dialog you can chose `Save with Encoding…`.

[![enter image description here][1]][1]


  [1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/BJeHO.png

I&#39;ve had the same problems with VS2015 vb.net project and solved it by adding `&lt;CodePage&gt;1250&lt;/CodePage&gt;` marker to your vbproj/csproj file. I did it after `&lt;SchemaVersion&gt;` marker, rebuilt the project and it worked for me. I&#39;ve had trouble with polish letters such as ż,ą etc. 
You can also try the UTF-8 - 65001 but I didn&#39;t check if it works.

What are accepted methods to reduce iPhone application piracy, which do not violate Apple&#39;s evaluation process?

If my application &quot;phones home&quot; to provide the unique device ID on which it runs, what other information would I need to collect (e.g., the Apple ID used to purchase the application) to create a valid registration token that authorizes use of the application? Likewise, what code would I use to access that extra data?

What seem to be the best available technical approaches to this problem, at the present time?

&lt;i&gt;(Please refrain from **non-programming answers** about how piracy is inevitable, etc. I know piracy is inevitable. I am interested in **programming-based answers** that discuss how to reduce it. Thanks in advance for your understanding.)&lt;/i&gt;

Reducing piracy of iPhone applications

Isn&#39;t there a (simple) way to tell Linq To SQL classes that a particular DateTime property should be considered as UTC (i.e. having the Kind property of the DateTime type to be Utc by default), or is there a &#39;clean&#39; workaround?

The time zone on my app-server is not the same as the SQL 2005 Server (cannot change any), and none is UTC. When I persist a property of type DateTime to the dB I use the UTC value (so the value in the db column is UTC), but when I read the values back (using Linq To SQL) I get the .Kind property of the DateTime value to be &#39;Unspecified&#39;.

The problem is that when I &#39;convert&#39; it to UTC it is 4 hours off. This also means that when it is serialized it it ends up on the client side with a 4 hour wrong offset (since it is serialized using the UTC).  

Linq to SQL DateTime values are local (Kind=Unspecified) - How do I make it UTC?

Is there a way to force VS to use Unicode always, instead of weird ISO-something?

I&#39;m working on a winapp csproject using Visual Studio 2008 on Vista (Polish locale). The problem appears when I build the project on Win Server 2003 (English locale) - then Polish diacritic is gone. 

I investigated that the issue is caused by improper source file encoding. It looks that source files aren&#39;t using UTF-8 encoding.

how to change source file encoding in csharp project (visual studio / msbuild machine)?

Is there a way to force VS to use Unicode always, instead of weird ISO-something?
I'm working on a winapp csproject using Visual Studio 2008 on Vista (Polish locale). The problem appears when I build the project on Win Server 2003 (English locale) - then Polish diacritic is gone.
I investigated that the issue is caused by improper source file encoding. It looks that source files aren't using UTF-8 encoding.

Is there any way to reopen the last closed tab in Visual Studio? Similar to &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;Shift&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;t&lt;/kbd&gt; in FireFox and Chrome?

Reopen last closed tab in Visual Studio

How do I convert from `CString` to `const char*` in my Unicode MFC application?

Convert CString to const char*

I have this problem where I open Visual Studio and the internal windows are scattered all over the place. None of them are docked; some that should be visible have become invisible and vice versa. I then have to spend ages getting the windows back where I like them.

It only seems to happen with some solutions and only appeared recently.

For the life of me I can&#39;t fix the problem. Has anyone else been through this?

Visual studio forgets window settings and makes a mess

I have Visual Studio 2005 set up to use Microsoft&#39;s symbol servers. I also have [UltraMon][1] installed, which injects a hook DLL into every process. Whenever I start debugging my [MFC][2] application, Visual Studio says:

    &quot;Loading symbols for C:\Program Files\UltraMon\RTSUltraMonHookX32.dll...&quot;

for anything from the blink of an eye to several tens of seconds. It&#39;s never going to find those symbols... Can I tell it not to bother looking?

(I tried creating an empty `RTSUltraMonHookX32.pdb` file, but Visual Studio sees that it&#39;s not good and carries on looking.)

  [1]: http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/
  [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Foundation_Class_Library


Prevent Visual Studio from trying to load symbols for a particular DLL

If so, is it a stack?   
That is, can I:  
GoToDefinition   
GoTODefinition  
GoToDefinition    

and then pop back up the call stack?  
None of the Edit.GoTo... commands do what I am looking for.  
TIA. 

After &quot;Go to Definition&quot;, is there a command to return to where you came from?

I&#39;ve recently had to switch encoding of webapp I&#39;m working on from `ISO-xx` to `utf8`. Everything went smooth, except properties files. I added `-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8` in `eclipse.ini` and normal files work fine. Properties however show some strange behaviour.

If I copy `utf8` encoded properties from Notepad++ and paste them in Eclipse, they show and work fine. When I reopen properties file, I see some Unicode characters instead of proper ones, like:

    Zur\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDck instead of Zur&#252;ck

but app still works fine.
If I start to edit properties, add some special characters and save, they display correctly, however they don&#39;t work and all previously working special characters don&#39;t work any more. 

When I compare local version with CVS I can see special characters correctly on remote file and after update I&#39;m at start again: app works, but Eclipse displays Unicode chars.

I tried changing file encoding by right clicking it and selecting „Other: UTF8” but it didn&#39;t help. It also said: „determined from content: ISO-8859-1”

I&#39;m using Java 6 and Jboss Developer based on Eclipse 3.3

I can live with it by editing properties in Notepad++ and pasting them in Eclipse, but I would be grateful if someone could help me with fixing this in Eclipse.

Java properties UTF-8 encoding in Eclipse

First I change Windows CMD encoding to utf-8 and run Python interpreter:

    chcp 65001
    python

Then I try to print a unicode sting inside it and when i do this Python crashes in a peculiar way (I just get a cmd prompt in the same window). 

    &gt;&gt;&gt; import sys
    &gt;&gt;&gt; print u&#39;&#235;&#232;&#230;&#238;&#240;&#39;.encode(sys.stdin.encoding)

Any ideas why it happens and how to make it work?

&lt;b&gt;UPD&lt;/b&gt;: `sys.stdin.encoding` returns `&#39;cp65001&#39;`

&lt;b&gt;UPD2&lt;/b&gt;: It just came to me that the issue might be connected with the fact that utf-8 uses [multi-byte character set](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-byte_character_set) (kcwu made a good point on that). I tried running the whole example with &#39;windows-1250&#39; and got &#39;&#235;ea&#238;?&#39;. Windows-1250 uses single-character set so it worked for those characters it understands. However I still have no idea how to make &#39;utf-8&#39; work here.

&lt;b&gt;UPD3&lt;/b&gt;: Oh, I found out it is a [known Python bug](http://bugs.python.org/issue1602). I guess what happens is that Python copies the cmd encoding as &#39;cp65001 to sys.stdin.encoding and tries to apply it to all the input. Since it fails to understand &#39;cp65001&#39; it crashes on any input that contains non-ascii characters.

Windows cmd encoding change causes Python crash

We already know [deflate encoding is a winner][1] over gzip with respect to speed of encoding, decoding and compression size.

So why do no large sites (that I can find) send it (when I use a browser that accepts it)?

[Yahoo claims][2] deflate is &quot;less effective&quot;. Why?

I maintain HTTP server software that prefers deflate, so I&#39;d like to know if there&#39;s some really good reason not to continue doing so.


  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/388595/why-use-deflate-instead-of-gzip-for-text-files-served-by-apache
  [2]: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#gzip

Why do real-world servers prefer gzip over deflate encoding?

I&#39;m attempting to decode text which is prefixing certain &#39;special characters&#39; with **\x**. I&#39;ve worked out the following mappings by hand:

    \x28   (
    \x29   )
    \x3a   :
    
    e.g. 12\x3a39\x3a03 AM

Does anyone recognise what this encoding is?

Which encoding uses the \x (backslash x) prefix?

I&#39;m reading out lots of texts from various RSS feeds and inserting them into my database.

Of course, there are several different character encodings used in the feeds, e.g. UTF-8 and ISO&amp;nbsp;8859-1.

Unfortunately, there are sometimes problems with the encodings of the texts. Example:

1. The &quot;&#223;&quot; in &quot;Fu&#223;ball&quot; should look like this in my database: &quot;&#194;Ÿ&quot;. If it is a &quot;&#194;Ÿ&quot;, it is displayed correctly.

2. Sometimes, the &quot;&#223;&quot; in &quot;Fu&#223;ball&quot; looks like this in my database: &quot;&#195;ƒ&#194;Ÿ&quot;. Then it is displayed wrongly, of course.

3. In other cases, the &quot;&#223;&quot; is saved as a &quot;&#223;&quot; - so without any change. Then it is also displayed wrongly.

What can I do to avoid the cases 2 and 3?

How can I make everything the same encoding, preferably UTF-8? When must I use `utf8_encode()`, when must I use `utf8_decode()` (it&#39;s clear what the effect is but when must I use the functions?) and when must I do nothing with the input?

How do I make everything the same encoding? Perhaps with the function `mb_detect_encoding()`? Can I write a function for this? So my problems are:

1. How do I find out what encoding the text uses?
2. How do I convert it to UTF-8 - whatever the old encoding is?

Would a function like this work?

    function correct_encoding($text) {
        $current_encoding = mb_detect_encoding($text, &#39;auto&#39;);
        $text = iconv($current_encoding, &#39;UTF-8&#39;, $text);
        return $text;
    }

I&#39;ve tested it, but it doesn&#39;t work. What&#39;s wrong with it?


Detect encoding and make everything UTF-8

I am trying to read a CSV file with accented characters with Python (only French and/or Spanish characters). Based on the Python 2.5 documentation for the csvreader (http://docs.python.org/library/csv.html), I came up with the following code to read the CSV file since the csvreader supports only ASCII.

    def unicode_csv_reader(unicode_csv_data, dialect=csv.excel, **kwargs):
        # csv.py doesn&#39;t do Unicode; encode temporarily as UTF-8:
        csv_reader = csv.reader(utf_8_encoder(unicode_csv_data),
                                dialect=dialect, **kwargs)
        for row in csv_reader:
            # decode UTF-8 back to Unicode, cell by cell:
            yield [unicode(cell, &#39;utf-8&#39;) for cell in row]
    
    def utf_8_encoder(unicode_csv_data):
        for line in unicode_csv_data:
            yield line.encode(&#39;utf-8&#39;)
    
    filename = &#39;output.csv&#39;
    reader = unicode_csv_reader(open(filename))
    try:
    	products = []
    	for field1, field2, field3 in reader:
            ...

Below is an extract of the CSV file I am trying to read:

    0665000FS10120684,SD1200IS,Appareil photo num&#233;rique PowerShot de 10 Mpx de Canon avec tr&#233;pied (SD1200IS) - Bleu
    0665000FS10120689,SD1200IS,Appareil photo num&#233;rique PowerShot de 10 Mpx de Canon avec tr&#233;pied (SD1200IS) - Gris
    0665000FS10120687,SD1200IS,Appareil photo num&#233;rique PowerShot de 10 Mpx de Canon avec tr&#233;pied (SD1200IS) - Vert
    ...

Even though I try to encode/decode to UTF-8, I am still getting the following exception:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File &quot;.\Test.py&quot;, line 53, in &lt;module&gt;
        for field1, field2, field3 in reader:
      File &quot;.\Test.py&quot;, line 40, in unicode_csv_reader
        for row in csv_reader:
      File &quot;.\Test.py&quot;, line 46, in utf_8_encoder
        yield line.encode(&#39;utf-8&#39;, &#39;ignore&#39;)
    UnicodeDecodeError: &#39;ascii&#39; codec can&#39;t decode byte 0xc3 in position 68: ordinal not in range(128)

How do I fix this?

Reading a UTF8 CSV file with Python

I know of the non-standard %uxxxx scheme but that doesn&#39;t seem like a wise choice since the scheme has been rejected by the W3C.

Some interesting examples:

The heart character.
If I type this into my browser:

    http://www.google.com/search?q=♥

Then copy and paste it, I see this URL

    http://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%99%A5

which makes it seem like Firefox (or Safari) is doing this.

    urllib.quote_plus(x.encode(&quot;latin-1&quot;))
    &#39;%E2%99%A5&#39;

which makes sense, except for things that can&#39;t be encoded in Latin-1, like the triple dot character.

    …

If I type the URL
    
    http://www.google.com/search?q=…

into my browser then copy and paste, I get 
    
    http://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%A6

back.  Which seems to be the result of doing

    urllib.quote_plus(x.encode(&quot;utf-8&quot;))


which makes sense since … can&#39;t be encoded with Latin-1.

But then its not clear to me how the browser knows whether to decode with UTF-8 or Latin-1.

Since this seems to be ambiguous:

    In [67]: u&quot;…&quot;.encode(&#39;utf-8&#39;).decode(&#39;latin-1&#39;)
    Out[67]: u&#39;\xc3\xa2\xc2\x80\xc2\xa6&#39;

works, so I don&#39;t know how the browser figures out whether to decode that with UTF-8 or Latin-1.

What&#39;s the right thing to be doing with the special characters I need to deal with?



What is the proper way to URL encode Unicode characters?

I&#39;m really confused with the `codecs.open function`. When I do:

    file = codecs.open(&quot;temp&quot;, &quot;w&quot;, &quot;utf-8&quot;)
    file.write(codecs.BOM_UTF8)
    file.close()

It gives me the error

&gt; UnicodeDecodeError: &#39;ascii&#39; codec can&#39;t decode byte 0xef in position
&gt; 0: ordinal not in range(128)

If I do:

    file = open(&quot;temp&quot;, &quot;w&quot;)
    file.write(codecs.BOM_UTF8)
    file.close()

It works fine.

**Question** is why does the first method fail? And how do I insert the bom?

If the second method is the correct way of doing it, what the point of using `codecs.open(filename, &quot;w&quot;, &quot;utf-8&quot;)`?

Write to UTF-8 file in Python

I&#39;m currently working in another country, and my PC has a non-English version of Windows installed. I don&#39;t care about this, but I do care a lot when Visual Studio shows error messages because they are also localized to the same language as Windows.

Sometimes I spend a good time trying to find what it means, which is pretty boring...

Is there any way to configure Windows or Visual Studio to display the messages in English?

Configure Visual Studio to show error messages in English

I&#39;m attempting to sort a list of strings in a locale-aware manner.  I&#39;ve used the Babel library for other i18n-related tasks, but it doesn&#39;t support sorting.  Python&#39;s `locale` module provides a `strcoll` function, but requires the locale of the process to be set to the one I want to work with.  Kind of a pain, but I can live with it.

The problem is that I can&#39;t seem to actually set the locale.  The [documentation][1] for the `locale` module gives this example:

    import locale
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, &#39;de_DE&#39;)

When I run that, I get this:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File &quot;&lt;stdin&gt;&quot;, line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
      File &quot;C:\Python26\Lib\locale.py&quot;, line 494, in setlocale
    locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

What am I doing wrong?

  [1]: http://docs.python.org/library/locale.html

What is the correct way to set Python&#39;s locale on Windows?

I have been trying to detect the browser language preference using JavaScript.

If I set the browser language in IE in `Tools&gt;Internet Options&gt;General&gt;Languages`, how do I read this value using JavaScript?

Same problem for Firefox. I&#39;m not able to detect the setting for `tools&gt;options&gt;content&gt;languages` using `navigator.language`.

Using  `navigator.userLanguage`  , it detects the setting done thru
`Start&gt;ControlPanel&gt;RegionalandLanguageOptions&gt;Regional Options` tab.

I have tested with `navigator.browserLanguage` and `navigator.systemLanguage` but neither  returns the value for the first setting(`Tools&gt;InternetOptions&gt;General&gt;Languages`)

I found a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t99655-save-way-to-detect-browser-language.html&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; which discusses this in detail, but the question remains unanswered :(


JavaScript for detecting browser language preference

I have looked around, but I have been unable to figure this out, some languages are read and written from right to left, instead of left to right.  It seems like a no-brainer to be able to get the text direction from the CultureInfo object somehow, but I have not seen it anywhere.  Am I missing something?

Is there any way to determine text direction from CultureInfo in asp.net?

I just can&#39;t seem to get localization to work. 

I have a class library. Now I want to create *resx* files in there, and return some values based on the thread culture. 

How can I do that?


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