The powershell cmdlet out-file has the switch -encoding witch you can set to default. This default value will use the encoding of the system's current ANSI code page. My question is: How can I get ...

In Visual Studio Code (Community version 1.17.2), I have configured file encoding in my Working Settings (settings.json) like that: "files.encoding": "utf8" Nevertheless, inside a specific folde...

I'm having an issue with StreamWriter and Byte Order Marks. The documentation seems to state that the Encoding.UTF8 encoding has byte order marks enabled but when files are being written some have ...

Delphi 2009 sets the default file format for new source code files to ANSI, this makes the source code platform-dependent. Even for a new XSD file created in the IDE, which by default starts with ...

I have been given some HTML files that use the Mac OS Roman file encoding. The files have French text, but in an editor many of the diacritical chars look strange (i.e. non French) Si cette option...

I saved an Excel table as text (*.txt). Unfortunately, Excel don't let me choose the encoding. So I need to open it in Notepad (which opens as ANSI) and save it as UTF-8. Then, when I read it in R:...

I have a PHP file that I created with VIM, but I'm not sure which is its encoding. When I use the terminal and check the encoding with the command file -bi foo (My operating system is Ubuntu 11.04...

Goal I am currently trying to write a Gulp wrapper for NPM Flat that can be easily used in Gulp tasks. I feel this would be useful to the Node community and also accomplish my goal. The repository ...

I'm struggling with a strange file name encoding issue when listing directory contents in Java 6 on both OS X and Linux: the File.listFiles() and related methods seem to return file names in a diff...

I want to write to a file with UTF-8 encoding containing the character 10001100 which is Πthe Latin capital ligature OE in extended ASCII table, zz <- file("c:/testbin", "wb") writeBin("1000...

Is there way to check is text file (.txt) encoded with Unicode or UTF-8 with Java?

I'm currently working on some search and replace operation that I'm trying to automate using powershell. Unfortunately I recognized yesterday that we've different file encodings in our codebase (UT...

I'm currently working on some search and replace operation that I'm trying to automate using powershell. Unfortunately I recognized yesterday that we've different file encodings in our codebase (UT...

Apparently, a Perl script I have results in two different output files depending on if I run it under Windows PowerShell, or cmd.exe. The script can be found at the bottom of this question. The fil...

problem: I have a string containing special characters which i convert to bytes and vice versa..the conversion works properly on windows but on linux the special character is not converted properly...

I'm not quite done with file.encoding and ant. How do I set the file.encoding for junit tests in ant? The junit ant task doesn't support the encoding attribute like the javac task does. I've trie...