ASCII stands for 'American Standard Code for Information Interchange'. ASCII is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. Since ASCII only contains definitions for 128 characters, numerous other encoding schemes have been created to include characters from other alphabets and other symbols.
Questions tagged [non-ascii-characters]
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Convert non-ascii hyphen to ascii in Scala
In my Scala web app I am parsing a URL parameter which normally contains hyphens. In some instances the parameter is coming through with non-ascii hyphens, i.e.
11157‑007‑9120‑9
instead of
11157-007-9120-9
This is causing a downstream…

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Match against non-ascii chars without recurring to external binaries
Suppose I have the following regex in grep:
grep -E 'head \x1E tail'
I can make grep aware of non-ascii characters using its personal escape code, \x.
Can I do the same with Bash, without calling any external program?
Bash provides 3 modes for…

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Showing '$' character not using '$' in HTML
Is there any way that I show '$' (or any ascii character) without using '$'?
I mean, with TeX, 'k' is the same as ^^+. And I wonder if there is similar way to do in HTML.

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How to handle special UTF8 Characters in body_html while updating a product?
I am updating products using the API. However when there is a non-ASCII (greater than 0x7f) in the body_html field, the product does not get updated.
for example:
body_html: "Acer’s Aspire®"
fails without any errors/warning

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Fetching Asian (Japanese / Chinese) characters from Excel file into TSV format using Perl's Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
Friends,
I am preparing a TSV file from excel file, containing Chinese (special) characters as follows - The Seonjeongneung ... Jeonghyeon (貞顯王后, 1462–1530) .....
I have tried using perl CPAN's Spreadsheet::ParseExcel and…

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french accent character issue in javascript
I am facing issue with french word (accent/special character) in javascript. e.g. Payable date pass�e de maturit� here It need to show exact character rather �. Please help me.
Thank you in advance.

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Inserting non-ASCII characters using the :before pseudo element
I have an input field inside a span, so that I can put a pound sign before all input fields in a span with the priceField class. However, because the pound symbol is a special character, I can't get it to render properly. I have tried the ascii dec…

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phpQuery and accented chars
When I parse html using phpQuery, I got bad results with accentuated chars.
The following code echo craps...
é');
echo $dom->text(); //bad result
?>
Anybody…
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find files with non-ascii chars in file name
Is there a way I can find files with non-ascii chars? I could use a pipe of course - and filter the files with perl, but for efficiency I'd like to set it all in find. I tried the following:
find . -type f -name '*[^[:ascii:]]*'
it doesn't work at…

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Iphone XML data accentuation?
I'm developing a project which fetch data from a php file(as XML).To be more clearly the app works like this:
1-Send an HTTP Request to a PHP file,which select data from a mysql database and display it as XML,using the code bellow:

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Can I directly use the accented syllable in database?
I am building a Rails application which needs the list of countries,cities.City should at least contain 100,000 peoples. I have found the data from Wikipedia.But I need a clarification city names contains some special letters.
Durrës - ë
Vicente…

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Non-ascii characters stops mysql statement
This SQL has failed.
SQL is
INSERT INTO
`migration_loose_terms`
(`source`,`field`,`term`,`lastaccess`)
VALUES
('services.media','keywords','spermatozoïde','2012-04-25 12:00:00')
Because it contains a weird (ï) character.
What…

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Lota character in Facebook make a rubbish
when i print this characters in facebook status it makes a rubbish like !̸̶͚͖͖̩̻̩̗͍̮̙̈͊͛̈͒̍̐ͣͩ̋ͨ̓̊̌̈̊́̚͝͠ͅ
and it seems to be everywhere not in facebook only i searched and it was found to be "Iota" the ninth character in the Greek alphabet , does…

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Which codepage is 0x81 = ü, 0x94 = ö, 0x9A = Ü?
I've got a CSV file, which has a character encoding which I can't identify. From it's content (German language entries) I could find the following characters matching some 1-byte character encodings:
0x81 = ü
0x94 = ö
0x9A = Ü
Which Codepage is…

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How to get int to dec and dec to hex using php?
This is hex c4 and dec is 196
When string length is 50 one of my project returning \xc4
If length is 51 then getting hex \xc5
length 55 = \xc9
length 56 = \xca
length 61 = \xcf
length 62 = \xd0
Continuously \xd9 then \xda to continuously \xdf then…

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