QUESTION : Some ill-written program has exported an Excel file with the wrong Hebrew encoding, with cryptic strings like: ãåç […]
Tag: encoding
Remove Audio stream from XVID files
Problem : I have a bunch of Xvid files that each have an audio stream that I do not want. […]
Check the character encoding of a given page in Chrome
Problem : Character encoding of an HTML document is determined by looking at various things (encoding in Content-Type header, meta […]
How to add extra text encodings to TextEdit on Mac OS X?
QUESTION : When saving a file as in TextEdit on Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), you can choose a […]
How can I create a zip / tgz in Linux such that Windows has proper filenames?
Problem : Currently, tar -zcf arch.tgz files/* encodes filenames in UTF, so Windows users see all characters spoiled in filenames […]
Multi-core DVD ripping/encoding on the Mac
QUESTION : A friend of mine likes ripping DVDs to his Mac. He’s currently on an ancient machine, and is […]
How to encode x264 remotely but build file locally?
QUESTION : Eg .avs script created on local Windows machine. Video source is also on local machine. But encoding is […]
7zip filename encoding problems
Problem : I have problems extracting files from 7zip archive with non-ascii symbols in filenames. I have identical versions of […]
Smart encoding conversion
Problem : I have a file that contains a mixture of English and Russian lines (one language per line). Russian […]
Special characters in chrome
Problem : If I search for something containing non-ASCII characters from the address bar, using Google as the default search […]