Questions tagged [latin]
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XML encoding of database contents with Latin characters
I have an ASP Access database that contains strings in various European languages. The database was populated prior by agents in the respective countries. It contains entries with accented etc characters as you would expect. If I open the…

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How to identify if a value in column can be encoded to Latin in Postgres
My Postgres database encodes everything as UTF-8, but in a query when selecting a column I want to know if it can be encoded as Latin. I've no need to actually encode it as Latin but I need to know if can be encoded as Latin.
By Latin in mean what…

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How to test if a bag is empty in Pig Latin?
I have a bag say C, that may may come back empty from an operation.
I want to test whether or not C is empty,
And if so populate a new tuple in a different bag with value 'true'; otherwise 'false'.
The difficulty I think is, it's testing the C bag…

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Android WebView doesn't shows some characters "ṭ ḍ ḥ"
Some of the not-show characters:
ḍ - ḍ
ḥ - ḥ
ḫ - ḫ
ḳ - ḳ
All the characters that not shown in Android WebView, HTML Entity's are greater than 7000.
I tried the solution below but it didn't work.
WebSettings settings =…

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CSS font-weight not working on serbian latin letters
My problem is that font-weight in css doesn't apply on serbian latin characters (šđčćž ŠĐČĆŽ) which the font supports. for example:
#header h1{
font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
font-weight: 800;
color: #FFF;
font-size: 50px;
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Lucene/Solr Filter for Latin text
Is there a Solr/Lucene filter for analyzing text in Latin (the language, not the script type)? They exist for many other languages (Italian, Czech, etc.) but Latin isn't included in the Solr distribution by default.
This makes sense, of course (no…

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Android non-latin letters conversion
I have search in the ListView. When I insert Latin letters, I need the result returned in cyrilic utf-8. I've been thinking about catching all letters and converting them to Cyrillic but there are 31 letters. Is there a simple way to do this in…

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How to change encoding (using latin encoding) in pyreadr Python
I am trying to read an RData file in Python with the package pyreadr, but the default encoding is 'utf-8'. I need to change it into 'latin' because when I launch the following command
pyreadr.read_r('Input/myFile.RData')
I get the following…

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FileOutputStream prints weird latin characters at the end in java
when I try copy a java file to txt file ,It works fine but it prints some additional lating character at end of output file(Note: there is no such latin character in input file).
please refer the code
import java.io.*;
public class File1 {
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Powershell replacing Unicode characters like "çöşİğü"
total coding noob here, trying to fix my script to help my job.
Basically, I want to add "*" after "ç, ö, İ, ş, ü, , ı" Turkish letters in a text file.
A quick example:
"Andaç" should be replaced with "Andaç*" (It can be "Andac*" too, doesn't…

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Vim – document navigation don't work on cyryllic texts in Windows but works in Linux
Good morning!
Recently I installed gvim on windows 10 and started vimtutor. My home language is Russian and vimtutor was translated by default.
After entering lesson 2.1 I found out that I can't use dw to delete words. Using this command I can…

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Detect non Latin characters with regex Pattern in Java
I THINK Latin characters are what I mean in my question, but I'm not entirely sure what the correct classification is. I'm trying to use a regex Pattern to test if a string contains non Latin characters. I'm expecting the following results
"abcDE…

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Grails constraints for Latin letters
I am using grails contraints mechanism to validate on a "name" field. How can I use regex to specify that, not only this should be allowed: matches:"[a-zA-z0-9_]+", but also characters like: ã, ó, ç, â, é, etc. (Brasilian characters)

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Does the chosen collation matters in this case?
I've a field of type char(1) in my MySQL table which basically can have only values m or f. Its current collation is set to ut8_unicode_ci. I was thinking whether I should or should not change the collation to something simpler like latin because…

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Character set vs codepage layout
1) Can anyone explain me why the ASCII and Latin-1 table is once in the chapter Character Set and once under Code page layout? I am fine if both terms are interchangbly used, but this is still inconsistent, or am I missing something?
2) Are ASCII…

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