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).

Escaping special character when generating an XML in Java

I am trying to develop an XML export feature to give my application users to export their data in an …

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How to escape special characters like ' in sqlite in android

I have a function which is executing a query on a table in SQLite database. I declare a constant: public …

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Bigger version of •

Is there a bigger version of •? • Right now it is this big I want it this big without …

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Separate string by tab characters

I have a text file that is tab-delimited. How can I separate this string into substrings for an array by …

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Enter "&" symbol into a text Label in Windows Forms?

How would one enter special characters into a Label in C# (Windows Forms)? If you try to write a "&" …

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removing emojis from a string in Python

I found this code in Python for removing emojis but it is not working. Can you help with other codes …

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What's the ASCII character code for '—'?

I am working on decoding text. I am trying to find the character code for the — character, not to be …

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Special characters in PHP / MySQL

I have in the database words that include special character (in Spanish mostly, like tildes). In the database everything is …

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Escape ampersand in PL/SQL Developer

I'm trying a simple INSERT statement against an Oracle database. One of the values is a VARCHAR2 field and the …

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PHP: Dealing special characters with iconv

I still don't understand how iconv works. For instance, $string = "Löic & René"; $output = iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT", $…

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