Ever opened a file and seen strange symbols or jumbled text? This post shows how to change the character encoding in Excel or Word.

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with ...

Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8’, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding schemes, also known as ...

If you have viewed a Web page containing strange characters you did not understand, you may have seen Unicode characters. Unicode consists of a character set that covers most languages in the world.

I am trying to figure out how IE determines what characters to encode in a URL. <BR>Ex. If I do a search on Google for 2:00 it becomes &q=2%3A00<BR><BR>How does Internet Explorer figure out to use %3A ...

The Chinese language is one of the most complex and comprehensive languages in the world. Sometimes I feel lucky to be Chinese, specifically when I see some of my foreign friends struggle to learn the ...