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 ...

Over on YouTube [Nic Barker] gives us: UTF-8, Explained Simply. If you’re gonna be a hacker eventually you’re gonna have to write software to process and generate text data. And when you deal with ...

There may be times when you are working in the Linux terminal and suddenly see the “can’t set the locale” error and see some mysterious characters like ...

UTF-8 is an ASCII-preserving encoding method for Unicode (ISO 10646), the Universal Character Set (UCS). The UCS encodes most of the world's writing systems in a single character set, allowing you to ...

The Cohen & Steers Infrastructure Fund has been one of the most popular equity CEFs for income investors for years. Having gone public in 2004 with a $19.06 NAV, you'd be hard-pressed to find another ...

XML sitemaps may sound technical, but they’re very simple, often auto-generated within content management systems (CMS), and essential for achieving SEO success. Without a sitemap, you’re relying ...

Zach was an Author at Android Police from January 2022 to June 2025. He specialized in Chromebooks, Android smartphones, Android apps, smart home devices, and Android services. Zach loves unique and ...

Reaves Utility Income Trust and Cohen & Steers Infrastructure Fund are popular utility closed-end funds with large market capitalizations. Both yield a similar amount. We go over the things you need ...

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Pretty much all modern environments fall back to unicode these days so "Windows-1251" encoding has to be defined explicitly for XMLs ...