Questions tagged [character-codes]

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How come the pound sign '£' in Haskell is shown as '\163' instead of outputting '£'?

I'm trying to write a program that writes the pound sign '£' in Haskell, but it outputs '\163' whenever I try to use it. I'm guessing that this is some alphanumeric code, but how do I get it to display what I want it to? I'm writing to the console,…
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Windows Constants for Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C, and Ctrl+V

I've got some older MFC code I wrote that I'm "freshening up" a bit. I have the following code in a window class' OnChar() handler. I really don't like using constants like 0x18. I'd like to make the code more readable. I know I can declare my own,…
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What does the X mean in hexadecimal character codes for HTML?

The format for a hexadecimal character code in HTML is: � ... where 00 is the UTF-8 or ASCII code of the character. Obviously the & and the ; are somewhat arbitrary codes, and the # indicates that a numerical code is being given rather than…
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Java character codes

I'm looking for terminator characters in Strings using indexOf. // character codes to look for int[] defseps = new int[] {10, 13, 34, 36, 38, 39,41, 44, 59, 63, 93, 125}; int t = 999999999; // big number, We want first terminator int tempt =…
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Javascript Unicode Conversion and Search

I'm wondering whether anyone has any insight on converting an array of character codes to Unicode characters, and searching them with a regex. If you have var a = [0,1,2,3] you can use a loop to convert them into a string of the first four control…
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