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UTF-8 all the way through

I’m setting up a new server and want to support UTF-8 fully in my web application. I have tried this in the past on existing servers and always seem to end up having to fall back to ISO-8859-1. Where exactly do I need to set the encoding/charsets? I’m aware that I need to configure Apache, MySQL, …

What is Your Experience with TaskJuggler? [closed]

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Setting environment variables in Linux using Bash

In tcsh, I have the following script working: What is the equivalent to the tcsh setenv function in Bash? Is there a direct analog? The environment variables are for locating the executable. Answer export VAR=value will set VAR to value. Enclose it in single quotes if you want spaces, like export VAR=’m…

ELF file headers

A quick question about elf file headers, I can’t seem to find anything useful on how to add/change fields in the elf header. I’d like to be able to change the magic numbers and to add a build date to the header, and probably a few other things. As I understand it the linker creates the header info…

Find all storage devices attached to a Linux machine [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Stack Overflow. Closed 10 years ago. Improve this question I have a need to find all of the writable storage devices attached to a given machine, whether or …

Where is the itoa function in Linux?

itoa() is a really handy function to convert a number to a string. Linux does not seem to have itoa(), is there an equivalent function or do I have to use sprintf(str, “%d”, num)? Answer EDIT: Sorry, I should have remembered that this machine is decidedly non-standard, having plugged in various no…