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

In the latest Windows 10 Insider build, Microsoft has released a new version of Notepad that includes changes that bring it closer to what we have come to expect from modern text file editors. These ...

The current state of ‘ill-defined encoding’ creates unnecessary problems when working with the JDK codebase, an OpenJDK proposal says. Source code for the Java Development Kit (JDK) would be redone in ...

OK. So, I inherited an ASP 3.0 web app that I just recently realized has a character encoding problem. Long story short, the data that users are submitting has started to become riddled with jacked-up ...

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.