Changing CSV character encoding, preserving IDs, and standardizing dates

You received a CSV, but the Japanese characters are not displaying correctly. When you open it in Excel, the leading zeros in ...

"It's the same CSV, but it's garbled on my friend's PC"—A story of getting stuck until I suspected the character encoding

In my previous article, I wrote about how I failed to notice a bug in attendance data because I suppressed exceptions with try-except. Applying that lesson, I was gradually improving the same script.
Streaming Media Magazine

What Is Encoding and Transcoding?

Streaming media production starts with the infinite real world as captured by the lenses of our camcorders, and ends with the tightly compressed files necessary for streaming delivery. Along the way, ...
Ars Technica

ID3 tags in WAV files for batch encoding

I have noticed while using EAC, and AudioGrabber that the option to save id3 info in the wav does not appear to function correctly. In Audiograbber it doesn't do it at all and in EAC it does put the ...
Macworld

iTunes Encoding Strategies

Building a digital music library used to be a simple matter of inserting a CD into your Mac and encoding the songs as MP3 files. Today the process is a little more complicated. iTunes 4.5 not only ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Data Prep for Machine Learning: Encoding

A good way to understand data encoding and see where this article is headed is to take a look at the screenshot of a demo program in Figure 1. The demo uses a small text file named ...