Questions tagged [special-characters]
Use for questions concerning characters that either 1) are not individual letters, numbers, or punctuation symbols shown on the keys of your keyboard, or 2) are treated differently from their literal value in a "coding" situation, such as interpretation as wildcard or metacharacters.
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How to delete a file with 0 bytes, but read "þa" from it in a c program
This question is not the same as How to delete an invincible 0 byte file? since none of the answers have worked and my impossible to delete file I "feeeel" is different.
I was following this ...
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Windows displaying shapes and lines instead of Letters
Windows is not displaying certain fonts for some reason. Any idea how to fix this ??
To read this text, I have to copy it and paste on notepad.
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Umlaut characters using UK keyboard on Windows (no NumPad)
Several references describe using Alt combined with numeric keys (with NumLock on). Other references suggest using the United States International keyboard layout.
But:
Keyboard is UK (the US layout ...
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Shorter alternative for CHAR(9) (tab) in Excel formula
I need to add several tabs in my formula so that when pasted as text the values have tabs. I use CHAR(9) for each tab, but using multiple CHAR(9)s made my formula very long, which would reach over the ...
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Typing alt codes on keyboard without numeric pad
I bought this keyboard without a numeric pad but as I found out I'm not able to use alt codes with it to type symbols such as Alt+30 makes ▲ or ■ and so on
Is there a trick how to type alt codes on a ...
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How do I enter special characters in text mode in dia?
How do I enter special characters in text mode in dia? I am talking about the Greek characters like (alpha, beta, gamma or epsilon) or other mathematical symbols.
I am using dia in Ubuntu, if that is ...
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How to force Windows to rename a file with a special character?
I have a song that Windows can't play because there is a question mark in the name of the file.
"Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?.ogg" // as an example
So I try to rename it and Windows complains ...
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Why are extended ASCII values on my computer accurate until 188?
I want to be able to type special characters, and judging from this list, only from 0 to 188 (inclusive) do the characters I get out match whats on that site.
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sed big string with special characters
I have a string that I want to remplace in a script to put the actual path of the file so:
my issue is that the string has special characters inside
Dir=pwd
old=simulationfoam = OpenFOAMReader(...
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Mac-style Option Key for Special Characters in Windows
One feature I like about OS X is that the "Option" key can be used to enter special characters while typing, making it easy to enter scientific symbols, accents, and so on.
I know in Windows you can ...
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How to restore the Alt-code to é and similar mappings on Word 2003 on Windows 10?
I used to be able to type Alt+0233 to get an e-acute (é) on Word 2003 on Windows 10, and I could also use various other Alt-code combinations, all beginning 02, to get other characters with diacritics,...
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Reading a reg key that contains a CRLF?
If a registry key, exports to a reg file as:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\key
]
"test"="1"
and from a PS window, the following works:
Get-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:...
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How to configure keyboard shortcuts for special characters on OS X?
How to configure keyboard shortcuts for special character on OS X? For example, one would set ALT+C to ©.
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How to type mdash and ndash characters in Windows 10 on a UK English keyboard? [duplicate]
In HTML, they are called the – and — entities.
Here is how they look like:
– hyphen
– en dash (or ndash, en-dash or n-dash)
— em dash (or mdash, em-dash or m-dash)
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convert character set (German)
I have a text file that uses various characters in the 128+ range in currently non-standard ways.
The file command just says Non-ISO extended-ASCII.
From the context I can recognise these:
Octal 201: ...
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Apostrophe/Accute accent breaking scripts
I'm pulling a large collection of pdf files from a server and some of them contain this character ’. On mac this is no problem and everything works fine, but when i run it on a linux environment it ...
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Shell special chars blowing up regexp(s) in all: sed, (g)awk, and perl [closed]
I would like to change the PS1 in my ~/.bashrc programmatically with any of the the most popular regexp tools { sed, awk or perl }. However, I have problems with special characters. Note that in the ...
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Rename a file with special characters and symbols? [duplicate]
I have read carefully the answers on this post. None of them helps me. I have accidentally download a file with non-ASCII characters into my Windows desktop as shown. I cannot move it or rename the ...
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Can I define a new character for my OS?
Normally when I write u+0022 it writes " (Look here). Is there any way to define a new character? I mean can I design a character and define a value (u+9999, for example) to it in order to make OS ...
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Script to convert ext4 filenames to NTFS
ext4 allows certain chars in filenames which NTFS doesn't. Is there a script to replace those chars in filenames?
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How to deal with special characters in an Excel vlookup in order to display properly?
I have cells with validation values set to a list of some Wingdings characters, and these cells use the Wingdings font:
If I use the combo validation by hand to set a value, it works perfectly.
But ...
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Clipping special characters to clipboard using command prompt
I want to place a certain useful special character to the clipboard to use it. So I did this using a simple batch script, something like this:
@echo off
set /p char=<character.txt
echo %char%| ...
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Quick access to special characters, ideally from the taskbar (Windows 10)
I have the following problem: I regularly need to use a variety of maybe 10 special characters in emails, text files, and so on. They are not located on my keyboard and I don't want to memorize the ...
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Notepad++ inserting special Unicode characters in UTF-8
What's the best ways to enter special Unicode characters into a Notepad++ document? Do I have to rely on the operating system (Windows)?
Looking for a see-and-click solution.
I can bring up the ASCII ...
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Proper encoding for file names in zip archives created in Windows and unpacked in linux
I have problems with different charsets in Windows and Linux (Centos).
I have files with special characters in their filenames from many different languages. The zip archive is generated under Win7 ...
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What is the coding character shurtcut on Windows?
I can use ` character with copy-paste from charmap but i want use with shortcut on my keyboard. What can i do? What is shortcut of this character on Windows 8? My keyboard is: Turkish Windows 8 ...
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Conditional formatting to rows without a special character *
How to apply conditional formatting to rows that do not have a special character * or any special characters?
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Exclamation Points - Is there a linux bash command to find and delete all directories named "!example" (and their contents)
I have searched and searched for an answer to this question, and I have used some of the answers I found in the past for finding and deleting large numbers of directories that are named by a certain ...
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How do I write special characters without AltGr key?
I ran into a problem trying to write some special characters like {}, @ etc using AltGr key. It is not system-wide issue, I encountered it just in Android Studio IDE and I already solved it in Android ...
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Multiple diacritics in Word
I am trying to type a paper in the Arabic Language and I need to put more than one diacritic on a single letter. I have been trying to find a way in Word but it doesn't work. When I tried to do this ...
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Trying to search filenames with special characters in windows explorer (Windows 10)
Through a very annoying person's mistake, thousands of my files have been copied, often multiple times. This has resulted in thousands of files named filename(2), filename(3), etc.
My bright idea was ...
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bash: how to pass command line arguments containing special characters
I've written myself a linux program program that needs a regular expression as input.
I want to call the program in the bash shell and pass that regular expression as a command line argument to the ...
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Trouble trying to use Windows Search to search for file with a question mark in the content
It seems that Windows Search is having trouble when I specify a question mark character as the content that I'm searching for within my files.
I've tried:
content:?
content:"?"
content:"\?"
content:\...
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Symbol which looks like . (dot) but is classified as letter in unicode
Iam writing my bachelor thesis at the moment. The problem for me is now the spellchecker (I use Open Office but this is a general problem) won't recognize .NET as a valid word. A also cannot add it to ...
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How do I pass a URL containing an equals sign to explorer.exe?
I've tried running
prompt> explorer.exe "https://www.google.com/search?q=example"
, but it just opens a normal explorer window.
prompt> explorer.exe "https://www.example.com/?q"
works. It ...
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Windows 10 Missing Left Double Quotation Mark Glyph in Character Map
This is so weird.
I am simply trying to type an open double quotes symbol in Windows 10 that should look like this:
Actually, I'm trying to replace wrongly interpolated quotes symbols in an ANSI ...
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Typing strange letters¿ w/o numpad?
How do i type ♣ (alt+5) and ♥ (alt+259) and other characters like it on a keyboard w/o a numberpad? using the numbers 1-9-0 doesnt activate those characters. Note i want to TYPE and not use that ...
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Rename a question mark (?) in filenames
With rename it is possible to bulk change filenames. I managed to get rid of all + with this command and replace them with underscores:
rename 's/\+/_/g' *
I could change normal letters like a to A ...
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How to format WinLogon\Shell with multiple spaces, quotes, and special characters?
Trying to start a custom application instead of explorer.exe at startup, but can't seem to figure out the proper format to accommodate the extra spaces, quotes, and special characters. Here's what I'...
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nginx - Filelisting encoding messed up
I'm using nginx 1.17.8 on Windows 10. In the config I have set autoindex on, which works fine. But then some files with special characters are wrongly encoded / messed up:
The auto generated link for ...
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Removing blank data from cells in Excel
I have a file with 50000 rows and 500 columns approx. with data populated. Though half of the cells in the sheet seem blank but the file looks heavier (50mb) which should not be. When I count the ...
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Large 'R' symbol html code?
Does anybody know the name and/or HTML character code for this large R? It's used in discrete mathematics when discussing relations.
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NetTerm shows characters instead of lines
My issue is almost the same as Why does YaST now show lines as lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq? , but instead of PuTTY and YaST, I'm using NetTerm and MLS (= WMS). My lines are also shown in characters as you can ...
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How to use command prompt to delete file with special characters?
I found this answer on Server Fault, but it is nearly 10 years old and doesn't work anyway
I have files with names like:
AlchBagSquare_Black°.nif
League-of-Legends-фэндомы-1759411.jpeg
When I ...
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How to find all hidden symbols on a keyboard?
OK I constantly see articles on how to type special characters using the character map or the codes or whatever ways. But often there is a way to type a symbol, but you just don't know under which key ...
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Windows 10 utility to replace keyboard repeat with phone-style hold for special characters? [closed]
Is there any utility available for Windows 10 that would allow my to replace the default hold-to-repeat-character behavior with a phone-style (Android at least) hold-to-enter-special-character? I can'...
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Create custom alt + control keys in Windows 10
Is it possible to create custom keyboard shortcuts on Windows 10 to generate characters that aren't featuring on your keyboard ?
In my case I often need the ß character but it's not featuring on my ...
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What is this mystery paragraph mark in Microsoft Word that cannot be copied?
In Microsoft Word 2013 on Windows 7, I keep encountering a strange paragraph mark that cannot be copy-pasted properly, which causes all kinds of problems. Unfortunately, I do not know how to produce ...
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Is URL encoding guarranteed to output printable characters only?
I refer to the URL encoding used in Burp and in the browsers
Is URL encoding guaranteed to output printable characters only?
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How can I find the Alt KeyCode for a glyph with the Windows system tools?
How can I find the Alt KeyCode of a particular glyph (special character) using any standard utility that ships with Windows (or a ?command line statement?)?
I understand this might seem like a ...
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