Top "Diacritics" questions

A Diacritic is "a mark near or through an orthographic or phonetic character or combination of characters indicating a phonetic value different from that given the unmarked or otherwise marked element" -- Merriam-Webster

Convert special character (i.e. Umlaut) to most likely representation in ascii

i am looking for a method or maybe a conversion table that knows how to convert Umlauts and special characters …

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Getting question mark instead accented letter using spring MVC 3

I tried lots of thing and could not understand why i am getting ? instead accented character. I'm using on my …

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Python and character normalization

Hello I retrieve text based utf8 data from a foreign source which contains special chars such as u"ıöüç" while I …

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Accents in URL, how can I escape them correctly ?

I have to get what is next to the # character in the URL (in javascript). When there's an é, for example, …

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SQLite accent-insensitive search

Is there any way to do an accent-insensitive LIKE query in SQLite? For example, this query: SELECT * FROM users WHERE …

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Removing diacritics in Polish

I'm trying to remove diacritic characters from a pangram in Polish. I'm using code from Michael Kaplan's blog http://www.…

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Java PDFBox - Reading and modifying a pdf with special characters (diacritics)

i'm trying to modify a pdf using this method (first code block - using PDFStreamParser and iterating through PDFOperator, then …

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German Umlauts in strftime date-formatting - correct utf-8 encoding?

I'm creating a german date format like this with PHP 14. März 2012 (which is March 14th 2012). I'm working with $date[0] …

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How to export umlaut (or any foreign character) in Matlab eps format?

I'm trying to use an umlaut within a legend command in MATLAB. A quick Google tells me the form I …

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How can Z͎̠͗ͣḁ̵͙̑l͖͙̫̲̉̃ͦ̾͊ͬ̀g͔̤̞͓̐̓̒̽o͓̳͇̔ͥ text be prevented?

I've read about how Zalgo text works, and I'm looking to learn how a chat or forum software could prevent …

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