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).

writing some characters like '<' in an xml file

since the beginning of my programmation, I used some special character like "<-", ""<<" im my string.xml …

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how to replace special characters with the ones they're based on in PHP?

How do I replace: "ã" with "a" "é" with "e" in PHP? Is this possible? I've read somewhere I could do some …

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Deleting all special characters from a string - ruby

I was doing the challenges from pythonchallenge writing code in ruby, specifically this one. It contains a really long string …

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Is it necessary to use &mdash; and &ndash; in XHTML or HTML5?

It seems that it is best to use the &amp; escape, instead of simply typing the ampersand (&). However, …

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WebClient.DownloadString() returns string with peculiar characters

I have an issue with some content that we are downloading from the web for a screen scraping tool that …

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Insert special character using :before pseudo class in css

I was toying around with the :before pseudo class in css, trying to insert a special character but the result …

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What are the allowed characters in a subdomain?

What characters are you allowed to use in a subdomain? Example: for someSub.example.com the someSub portion. I know …

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How to escape a square bracket for Pattern compilation

I have comma separated list of regular expressions: .{8},[0-9],[^0-9A-Za-z ],[A-Z],[a-z] I have done a split on the …

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Converting special charactes such as ü and à back to their original, latin alphbet counterparts in C#

I have been given an export from a MySQL database that seems to have had it's encoding muddled somewhat over …

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Looking for special characters in Google

Do you know how to look for special characters with google...? I'm looking at bash code and there's the ## operator. …

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