Ever opened a file and seen strange symbols or jumbled text? That’s usually an encoding problem; your software isn’t reading the data correctly. The good news is that Microsoft Office makes it easy to ...

Quite often, when a sender emails us in Outlook, we do not see the message but instead see unreadable characters. If you regularly see strange or incorrect characters in your Outlook email, this short ...

Typically, using standard formats when programming can help you migrate information between different programs. Using the Comma Separated Value file format, for example, lets you create lists of data ...

XML files have a header describing what encoding they are in. If this is correct, you're done. However, ASCII is a subset of UTF-8 so you can safely assume everything is UTF-8 and parse it.