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).

How to use javascript to get html special characters in text input

I want to sent some html special character to text field and then later use javascript to get it back …

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Pound symbol not displaying on web page

I have a mysql database table to store country name and currency symbol - the CHARSET has correctly set to …

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Is there a "glyph not found" character?

Let's assume we have a text that contains a Unicode character that cannot be displayed because our font has no …

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What does # mean in LISP

For example, #'functionname, is it necessary?

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With iTerm2 on Mac, how to delete forward a word from cursor on command-line?

With iTerm2 1.0.0 on Mac OS X 10.6.8, I'd like to delete from cursor to the next end of word, i.e. …

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Amazon S3 : Access Denied for URL using symbols

I would like to download some files uploaded on my S3 Server. For the moment, all my buckets and files …

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How do I print a tab character in Pascal?

I'm trying to figure out in all the Internets what's the special character for printing a simple tab in Pascal. …

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Special characters in Android sms

I've observed this issue for years now, not knowing where it came from. I am concerned that this bug is …

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Weird (unicode?) characters

A user has been posting some weird characters on my site and I'd like to block them from doing so …

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What are valid characters for Windows environment variable names and values?

After some reseach, I found out that length limits for names are 255 and for values 32767 characters. But which characters are …

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