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Text is a sequence of printable characters.

Text is a sequence of printable characters.

Text can be unformatted (plain) or formatted (rich).

The most common character codes used for representing text are Unicode and ASCII:

  • ASCII is a character code and an encoding.
  • Unicode is a complex standard, with multiple encodings, the most common of which is UTF-8.
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How to stop Tkinter Text widget resize on font change?

I'm trying to create a simple word processor for starters to learn Python a bit better. I'm using the Tkinter Text widget for the main editing program, the only problem is the height and width are defined by characters. This creates a problem when…
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Validation in swt text

I would like to validate numbers input in text box. I want the user to input only integer, decimal in the box between a maximum and minimum values. How can I make sure of this? Thank you.
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How to show vectorized text using libgdx?

I'm quite a noob with libGDX for Android (nice OpenGL wrapper that can also work on PC), and I've read some nice examples of how to show images and shapes. However, when I wanted to check out how to show text, I noticed that the only thing I could…
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Extracting Main Content ( Highest Text Density ) From a news article Web-Page

I want to make a code to extract the main news from a news website . News websites contain the main news , ads , reviews , copyright notice so i want to get only the main news like done in boilerpipe but i want to know how to do that . So i want to…
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Is it possible to do multiple colored text within an Excel cell?

I have string strInfo, which contains "Employee John Maybach". How do I make the "Employee" part black text, and the "John Maybach" part red? The "Employee" part will always remain constant, but the employee's name part will change such that it may…
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What is the SQL used to do a search similar to "Related Questions" on Stackoverflow

I am trying to implement a feature similar to the "Related Questions" on Stackoverflow. How do I go about writing the SQL statement that will search the Title and Summary field of my database for similar questions? If my questions is: "What is the…
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CSS text overflows ooh man what a mess

I compiled this jsFiddle demo so that you can see what i am going throw. Using the Twitter Bootstrap 2 i thought everything was fine and simple things were taken care until i hit with this. I don't understand if the markup is not right or the…
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Border around multiline text in a div (html/css)

I want to have a border around multiline text, I have: Morbi hendrerit pretium nibh quis mattis. Blah blah blah blah blah... Now, when the span spans more than one line, the border is created around…
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Really fancy printing on python

Since python has way to do nearly everything I was wondering is there any API which would help me print out really fancy text to my log e.g. # # ####### # # ########## # # # # # # # # # # # …
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How to filter rows based on the character length of a field

I have a table with column "id" and "description". Need to find those rows where description has more than 100 characters in it? EDIT: now got the Above question.. But is there any way to get the count of number of characters ?
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How to format tabular data as text in Java?

I would like to produce nicely formatted tabular text from arbitrary dataset object models. Is there a good library to do this in Java? Specifically, I want output that is formatted like command line data management tools such as the CLI for mysql.…
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Save Java txt file to folder

First of all - I love you all at Stackoverflow! Everyone is very helpful! Sadly when I go to answer questions they are all too advance for me :'( I want to save the text file to a folder - but not an absolute folder for example I want to save it to…
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How to flip text horizontally?

i'm need to write a function that will flip all the characters of a string left-to-right. e.g.: Thė quiçk ḇrown fox jumṕềᶁ ovểr thë lⱥzy ȡog. should become .goȡ yzⱥl ëht rểvo ᶁềṕmuj xof nworḇ kçiuq ėhT i can limit the question to UTF-16 (which…
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Center-aligning text on console in Python

I am creating a simple console-based Python (version 2.4) script that will be run on a Bash shell. It is a simple menu-based script that displays a set of options to the user and will do specific tasks depending on the user input. When the script…
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count number of lines in file - Scala

How would I go about counting the number of lines in a text file similar to wc -l on the unix command line in scala?
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