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 do I add a bullet symbol in TextView?

I have a TextView and I want to add a bullet symbol in my text through XML. Is it possible?

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What is a vertical tab?

What was the original historical use of the vertical tab character (\v in the C language, ASCII 11)? Did it ever …

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Replace Both Double and Single Quotes in Javascript String

I am pulling in some information from a database that contains dimensions with both ' and " to denote feet and …

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Converting Symbols, Accent Letters to English Alphabet

The problem is that, as you know, there are thousands of characters in the Unicode chart and I want to …

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Identifying and removing null characters in UNIX

I have a text file containing unwanted null characters (ASCII NUL, \0). When I try to view it in vi I …

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UTF-8 encoded html pages show � (questions marks) instead of characters

I have the standard XAMPP installation on win7 (x64). Having had my share of encoding troubles in a past project …

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How to set the "Content-Type ... charset" in the request header using a HTML link

I have a simple HTML-page with a UTF-8 encoded link. <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" …

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How to run mysql command on bash?

The following code works on the command line mysql --user='myusername' --password='mypassword' --database='mydatabase' --execute='DROP DATABASE myusername; CREATE …

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How to display special characters in PHP

I've seen this asked several times, but not with a good resolution. I have the following string: $string = "<p&…

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What is the first character in the sort order used by Windows Explorer?

For example, in a Windows folder, if we create some files and name them 1.html, 2.txt, 3.txt, photo.jpg, zen.…

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