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).

What is the best way to remove punctuation marks, symbols, diacritics, special characters?

I use these lines of code to remove all punctuation marks, symbols, etc as you can see them in the …

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Special Characters in XML

I am creating a left navigation system utilizing xml and xsl. Everything was been going great until I tried to …

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What are the official XML reserved characters?

In this page, Microsoft says that XML reserved characters (and their entity) are the following ones: > &gt; < &…

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R: What are operators like %in% called and how can I learn about them?

I know the basics like == and !=, or even the difference (vaguely) between & and &&. But stuff like %in% …

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Escape String - Output rails string in Javascript

I'm trying to assign a string value to a javascript object in my .erb file like so: var data = { 'name': …

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How to replace decoded Non-breakable space (nbsp)

Assuming I have a sting which is "a s d d" and htmlentities turns it into "a&nbsp;s&…

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How to properly escape special characters using ngSanitize?

I want to let user enter special characters such as "&" and then convert those to correct html when page …

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How can I display "$£Ω€απ⅔" in Jasperserver PDF using iReport?

I've hardcoded a Text field with the value ":$£Ω€απ⅔:" to test if these characters will show in PDF But it only …

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Typing the tilde ~ character in DOS

In my DOS prompt I have to put in a tilde (~) character to open any files. For some reason it …

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Use of special characters in function names

In Ruby, a standard convention is to use a question mark at the end of a method name to indicate …

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