Tuesday 25 June 2013

Go: Unicode on the Windows command prompt (golang)

Go (golang.org) has pretty good Unicode support on the Windows command line. I've written about Unicode and cmd.exe before in the context of C++, C# and Java.

Versions: Windows 7 (64-bit); go1.1.1 windows/amd64; Java 1.7.0_21

Thursday 6 June 2013

Java: detecting JSON character encoding

JSON documents are generally encoded using UTF-8 but the format also supports four other encoding forms. This post covers the mechanics of character encoding detection for JSON parsers that don't provide handling for them - for example, Gson and JSON.simple.

EDIT: 2014; a version of this library has been published to Maven central.