I need your help concerning something which disturbs me when working with UNICODE encoding in .NET Framework ... I have to interface with some customer data systems with are non-UNICODE application...

If you are doing automation on windows and you are redirecting the output of different commands (internal cmd.exe or external, you'll discover that your log files contains combined Unicode and ANSI...

As the title says, I am trying to decrypt DUKPT encrypted track data coming from a DUKPT enabled scanner. I have the ANSI Standard (X9.24) for DUKPT and have successfully implemented the ability t...

I have a webservice that returns the config file to a low level hardware device. The manufacturer of this device tells me he only supports single byte charactersets for this config file. On this w...

my app is a non-unicode app written in Delphi 7. I'd like to convert unicode strings to ANSI with this function : function convertU(ws : widestring) : string; begin result := string(ws); end; ...

Somewhere I read (rephrased): If we compare a UTF-8 encoded file VS a UTF-16 encoded file, At some times, the UTF-8 file may give a 50% to 100% larger file size Am I right to say that the art...

I discovered there is no mentioning about thisContext in ANSI Smalltalk specification (draft). I assumed ANSI Smalltalk as standardized Smalltalk-80, so I can't understand why it's not there. What...

I have a file which is ANSI encoded. However it shows Arabic letters inside it. this text file was generated by some program (I have no info on) but it seems like there is some kind of internal enc...

I have a simple TStringList. I do a TStringList.Sort on it. Then I notice that the underscore "_" sorts before the capital letter "A". This was in contrast to a third party package that was sorti...

What is the difference between the Unicode, UTF8, UTF7, UTF16, UTF32, ASCII, and ANSI encodings? In what way are these helpful for programmers?

I'm thinking of forming a Hackers Club at work. My idea is that we would meet monthly and at each meeting one member would present an interesting hack he had created. (The hacks presented ...