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

I've just built a web software app implemented mainly in Javascript, which involves a lot of user-entered text which must be stored and retrieved from a server-based database. So user-entered text is ...

What other common (or uncommon I suppose...) text encoding formats are there besides ASCII and Unicode.<BR><BR>I know that in ASCII the string 12345 would be stored as 3132333435. I've seen that ...

Base64 is a binary-to-text encoding scheme used to encode files and images by translating them into a radix-64 representation and presenting binary data in an ASCII string format. It is mainly used ...