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 escape literal percent sign when NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES option is enabled?

My company runs MySQL in NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES mode. How can I escape a literal % or _ in a LIKE query …

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Which are the HTML, and XML, special characters?

What are the special reserved character entities in HTML and in XML? The information that I have says: HTML: & (…

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Android default charset when sending http post/put - Problems with special characters

I have configured the apache httpClient like so: HttpProtocolParams.setContentCharset(httpParameters, "UTF-8"); HttpProtocolParams.setHttpElementCharset(httpParameters, "UTF-8"); I also include the …

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Replace special characters before the file is uploaded using PHP

I was wondering if it is possible to change the name of the file to be uploaded. I mean what …

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for name in `ls` and filenames with spaces

next code doesnt work because of spaces in file names, How to fix? IFS = '\n' for name in `ls ` …

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How to post special/reserved characters from HTML forms to PHP pages?

I have a form that looks like this: <form action="/assesment/savelist/" method="post"> <input type="hidden" …

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How do I pass a a large string containing characters like '%' and '&' to my php …

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Is there a HTML/CSS way to display HTML tags without parsing?

Is there any way that I could display HTML tags without parsing? Tags like XMP worked before perfectly but now …

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How can I include special characters (tab, newline) in a python doctest result string?

Given the following python script: # dedupe.py import re def dedupe_whitespace(s,spacechars='\t '): """Merge repeated whitespace …

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How to allow fulltext searching with hyphens in the search query

I have keywords like "some-or-other" where the hyphens matter in the search through my mysql database. I'm currently using the …

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