Top "Special-characters" questions

Special characters (as they apply to programming) are language-specific reserved characters or symbols used to accomplish a specific task (e.g. wildcard characters, data type indicators, escape characters, etc).

Convert ' to an apostrophe in PHP

My data has many HTML entities in it (• ...etc) including '. I just want to convert it …

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Does At symbol (@) and Dollar Sign ($) has any special meaning in C or C++

Recently one of my friend encountered this question in an interview. The interviewer asked him if the special characters like $, @, |, ^, ~ …

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Spanish Characters not Displaying Correctly

I am getting the lovely � box where spanish characters should be displayed. (ie: ñ, á, etc). I have already made sure that …

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What is the difference between iconv() and mb_convert_encoding() in PHP?

What's the difference between iconv() and mb_convert_encoding() in PHP? Does one perform better, faster, etc. ( eg. with specific …

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Regex - With Space and Special Characters

I'm using the following Regex ^[a-zA-Z0-9]\s{2,20}$ for input Letters A - Z Letters a - z Numbers 0 - 9 …

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How to ignore acute accent in a javascript regex match?

I need to match a word like 'César' for a regex like this /^cesar/i. Is there an option …

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How to make a button that shows the backspace (⌫) character on Android?

I'm trying to use the ⌫ character as my backspace symbol in my android app. When I just copy and paste …

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NSURL URLWithString: is null with non-english accented characters

I have the following string... NSString *googleSearchString = @"http://www.google.com/search?q=lyrics+%22Tænder+På+Dig%22+%22Jakob+Sveistrup%22"; …

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Insert × using CSS pseudo element

I am trying to use × &times HTML character as a close icon on a dialog link .close:before { content: "\0274…

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Should we HTML-encode special characters before storing them in the database?

I use MySQL to store data and my web pages are all encoded as UTF-8. I have a lot of …

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