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encoding questions ... - pakky - 11-22-2023
ok im very noob in encoding,need help to understand the basic .
lets take the password "pass123" in txt file pass.txt
1- if the password/hash is made on -a US computer ill put the word pass123 in pass.txt encoded in UTF-8 ? correct ?
2- if the password/hash "pass123" is made on a russian computer with windows-1251 as default encoding ,should i put pass123 in a pass.txt encoded in windows-1251 ? correct ? or i remain in utf-8 ?
i use notepad++ and on windows
thx for your time
RE: encoding questions ... - v71221 - 11-24-2023
UTF-8 uses one to four bytes to encode characters.
UTF-8 was designed for backward compatibility with ASCII
the first 128 characters are encoded using a single byte (8-bit) with the same binary value as ASCII
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
Windows-1251 uses one byte (8-bit) to encode characters.
the first 128 characters have the same binary value as ASCII
https://www.ascii-code.com/CP1251
pass123 all these characters are ASCII
Thus, a file with these characters must be 7 bytes in size
regardless of whether it is saved in ASCII or UTF-8 or Windows-1251 format.
RE: encoding questions ... - pakky - 11-24-2023
(11-24-2023, 02:06 PM)v71221 Wrote: UTF-8 uses one to four bytes to encode characters.
UTF-8 was designed for backward compatibility with ASCII
the first 128 characters are encoded using a single byte (8-bit) with the same binary value as ASCII
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
Windows-1251 uses one byte (8-bit) to encode characters.
the first 128 characters have the same binary value as ASCII
https://www.ascii-code.com/CP1251
pass123 all these characters are ASCII
Thus, a file with these characters must be 7 bytes in size
regardless of whether it is saved in ASCII or UTF-8 or Windows-1251 format.
ok thx for the explanation ,so if i understand well its utf-8 encoding in notepad ++ ? even if computer was cp-1251
RE: encoding questions ... - Snoopy - 11-24-2023
standard encoding for new files in np++ is UTF-8, you can change the encoding of the file to whatever you want
other widly used should be
plain ascii/ansi
windows-1252
iso-8859-1
iso-8859-15