By SQL Server's documentation (and legacy documentation), a nvarchar field without _SC collation, should use the UCS-2 ENCODING. Starting with SQL Server 2012 (11.x), when a Supplementary Characte...

I'm looking for a code/lib in php that I will call it and pass a text to it and it will tell me: What is the encode I need to use in order to send this text as SMS (7,8,16 bit) How many SMS messa...

When I run my Python code, I get the following errors: File "E:\python343\crawler.py", line 31, in <module> print (x1) File "E:\python343\lib\idlelib\PyShell.py", line 1347, in write ret...

Just what the title says. $ ./configure --help | grep -i ucs --enable-unicode[=ucs[24]] Searching the official documentation, I found this: sys.maxunicode: An integer giving the largest sup...

While researching options for storing mostly-English-but-sometimes-not data in a SQL Server database that can potentially be quite large, I'm leaning toward storing most string data as UTF-8 encode...

I have a Unicode text-block, like this: ụ ư ứ Ỳ Ỷ Ỵ Đ Now, I want to convert this orginal Unicode text-block into a text-block of UTF-8 (HEX) code point (see the Hexadecimal UTF-8 column, on thi...

Updated question ¹ With regards to character classes, comparison, sorting, normalization and collations, what Unicode version or versions are supported by which .NET platforms? Original question ...

I'm using R 3.1.1 on Windows 7 32bits. I'm having a lot of problems reading some text files on which I want to perform textual analysis. According to Notepad++, the files are encoded with "UCS-2 Li...

We'd like to move our Confluence system to a SQL Server 2008 R2. Now, since Confluence uses UTF-8 encoding, I'd need a database using the same encoding (I guess that's the collation?). There's th...

I'm trying to write .txt file and it have to be UCS-2 Little Endian, but when I tried writer = new PrintWriter(path, "UTF-16LE"); From what I read it should be the same, but it won't work in sp...

I can't seem to be able to decode UCS-2 BE files (legacy stuff) under Python 3.3, using the built-in open() function (stack trace shows UnicodeDecodeError and contains my readLine() method) - in fa...

According to this, SQL Server 2K5 uses UCS-2 internally. It can store UTF-16 data in UCS-2 (with appropriate data types, nchar etc), however if there is a supplementary character this is stored as ...

i edit three files which have same content "你"(is you in english) in it in three different forms--gbk\utf-8\ucs-2 with gedit named "ok1,ok2,ok3". >>> f1 = open('ok1', 'rb').read() >&gt...

I am trying to convert the file generated from a mssql to utf-8. When I open the output of he mssql using notepad++ in windows server 2003 recognises the file as UCS-2LE I copied the file to a Ubun...

I've understood that an USSD message consists of 160 bytes. For 7 bit data coding schemes, the maximum number of characters is 160*8/7 which gives 182 characters. It's unclear to me what is the max...

I've got what's supposed to be a UCS-2 encoded xml document that I've managed to build a DOM based on minidom after some tweaking. The issue is that I'm supposed to have some data encoded on base6...

It seems that SQL Server uses Unicode UCS-2, a 2-byte fixed-length character encoding, for nchar/nvarchar fields. Meanwhile, C# uses Unicode UTF-16 encoding for its strings (note: Some people don't...

I am in the process of "modernizing" a classic asp application that uses a Access 2000 database. I rewrote the database on SQL Server 2008r2 and changed all of the fields to use the newer unicode ...

I'm still trying to decide whether my (home) project should use UTF-8 strings (implemented in terms of std::string with additional UTF-8-specific functions when necessary) or some 16-bit string (im...