UTF-8 is the de-facto standard in most modern software for saved files. More specifically, it's the most widely used encoding for HTML and configuration and translation files (Minecraft, for …

Mar 31, 2009 · What is the difference between the Unicode, UTF8, UTF7, UTF16, UTF32, ASCII, and ANSI encodings? In what way are these helpful for programmers?

1060 The UTF-8 BOM is a sequence of bytes at the start of a text stream (0xEF, 0xBB, 0xBF) that allows the reader to more reliably guess a file as being encoded in UTF-8. Normally, the BOM …

Aug 13, 2011 · UTF-8 is a multibyte encoding that can represent any Unicode character. ISO 8859-1 is a single-byte encoding that can represent the first 256 Unicode characters. Both …

Apr 7, 2019 · UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte Please see my screenshot here: I don't know either how to save the original data without …

read_csv takes an encoding option to deal with files in different formats. I mostly use read_csv('file', encoding = "ISO-8859-1"), or alternatively encoding = "utf-8" for reading, and …

May 12, 2016 · Here's the thing: the CSV format doesn't have a way of identifying its character encoding. The format itself doesn't. So anything that opens a CSV has to guess what …

Feb 13, 2012 · Content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8 designates the content to be in JSON format, encoded in the UTF-8 character encoding. Designating the encoding is somewhat …

Mar 31, 2009 · What is the difference between Big Endian and Little Endian Byte order ? Both of these seem to be related to Unicode and UTF16. Where exactly do we use this?

Jul 22, 2019 · To increase the reliability with which a UTF-8 encoding can be detected, Microsoft invented a variant of UTF-8 (that Python calls "utf-8-sig") for its Notepad program: Before any …