Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/16
Last year, Waterschap Amstel, Gooi en Vecht sent me a paper letter notifying the yearly water bill was going to be late as they were redesigning their IT systems.
Their letter introduced a classic Mojibake that had not been present in all their older paper letter communication.
"Pyreneeën":
"Pyreneeën":
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/10
When writing this, [Wayback/Archive.is] ftfy · PyPI:history indicates ftfy was already at 6.0.3.
It is still my goto tool for figuring out the cause of Mojibake. I remember writing about it the first time in 2016 (see the ftfy category) when it was already at version 3.0, discovering it after a few Mojibake posts.
By now it even understands right-to-left Mojibake garbage: 
[Archive.is] Elia Robyn Speer on Twitter: “ftfy 5.8 is out! … A user reported that Hebrew text wasn’t being fixed, and this made me think about how to expand some of the trickier cases to non-Latin alphabets.”
Mojibake mishaps still happen a lot, so by now I hope I will have done a Mojibake themed Delphi talk at one or more conferences.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/16
So I can find them back later:
An interesting party with some public SMS APIs is MessageBird. You can compare their old and new ones:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/15
[Wayback] WILT: XML encode a string in .net « Benoit MARTIN’s Weblog:
Always wondered why I couldn’t find a method that would XML encode a string, effectively escaping the 5 illegal characters for XML. There is such a method but its location in the API is not intuitive at all. It’s in the
System.Securitynamespace: [Wayback] SecurityElement.Escape(String) Method (System.Security) | Microsoft Docspublic static string? Escape (string? str);Its usage is:
tagText = System.Security.SecurityElement.Escape(tagText);This will escape the 5 characters
<,>,&,"and'
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/15
From my Windows XP days (which are long gone), but historically relevant the answer to [Wayback] DELPHI : EEncodingError – Invalid code page on windows xp embedded – Stack Overflow by [Wayback] Remy Lebeau:
The
TEncoding.ASCIIproperty uses codepage 20127, which is not installed on XP Embedded by default. You have to install it manually. TheTEncodingclass does not exist in D2006.Are you using Indy 10, by chance? It uses
TEncoding.ASCIIby default for its string encodings. This exact error has been known to occur when using Indy on XP Embedded.
–jeroen
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