Top "Unicode" questions

Unicode is a standard for the encoding, representation and handling of text with the intention of supporting all the characters required for written text incorporating all writing systems, technical symbols and punctuation.

How does Zalgo text work?

I've seen weirdly formatted text called Zalgo like below written on various forums. It's kind of annoying to look at, …

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FPDF utf-8 encoding (HOW-TO)

Does anybody know how to set the encoding in FPDF package to utf-8? Or at least to ISO-8859-7 (Greek) …

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Is there Unicode glyph Symbol to represent "Search"

Unicode has a million icon-like glyphs, but they're very hard to search. Is there a Unicode glyph that looks like …

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How can I remove non-ASCII characters but leave periods and spaces using Python?

I'm working with a .txt file. I want a string of the text from the file with no non-ASCII characters. …

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How to make the python interpreter correctly handle non-ASCII characters in string operations?

I have a string that looks like so: 6 918 417 712 The clear cut way to trim this string (as I understand Python) …

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UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character

What could be causing this error when I try to insert a foreign character into the database? >>UnicodeEncodeError: …

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What would be the Unicode character for big bullet in the middle of the character?

I want something like 0x2022 8226 BULLET • But bigger. I can't even seem to find them at http://www.ssec.wisc.…

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u'\ufeff' in Python string

I get an error with the following patter: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\ufeff' in position 155: ordinal not …

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How to convert char* to wchar_t*?

I've tried implementing a function like this, but unfortunately it doesn't work: const wchar_t *GetWC(const char *c) { const …

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Java FileReader encoding issue

I tried to use java.io.FileReader to read some text files and convert them into a string, but I …

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