Unicode is the standard for computer representation of plain text. It encompasses: the Universal Character Set (UCS), intended to unambiguously represent all characters used in human writing systems in any language, Unicode Transformation Formats (UTFs), defining standardized formats for storing ...
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outlook can't search mail with subject in Japanese
Microsoft tell us that
Microsoft Outlook supports Unicode and provides full support for multilingual data.
but today, when I search for my message with this subject "FW: １月分課題対応のお願い" (Sure that ...
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How do I use non-latin alphabet characters in a framebuffer console?
How do you guys use Linux when you have lots of files with non-Latin alphabets, or even Chinese/Japanese? I don't have a problem with Windows, because I do everything in the GUI (it's hard not to), ...
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Change URLs with percent signs back to their original language
How can I convert a link which has percentages and dollars in the URL into its original language?
I don't want it displayed like the following
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How can I input unicode characters by code point in Xfce (Ubuntu)?
In Gnome, entering Shift-Ctrl-U plus hex codes allows you to enter arbitrary unicode characters (see also this. This is supposed to work for any Gtk2 app, but is not working for me in gnome-terminal ...
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iTunes and Unicode ID3 Tags
I'm using MP3Tag for tagging my MP3s since a long time and it creates very good results.
With iTunes (of course not with other MP3 programs e.g. Winamp) I always have problems after first import of ...
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Web pages display unicode characters but not Notepad, why?
I am running Windows XP. Although notepad, Office etc show boxes, proper text is displayed in Firefox. If the system doesn't have the font for a language, how can the web browser manage to circumvent ...
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iconv generating UTF-16 with BOM
Inspired by this question, can I use the iconv command to generate UTF-16 output with a BOM and with specified endianness?
The iconv command converts text from one encoding to another.
For example:
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woff font creating
I have a open type unicode font created for largely Devanagari codepoints. I want to use it on a website. I converted the font to woff using fontforge. using default options. But once the font is ...
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View unicode codepoints for all letters in file on bash
I have to deal with a file that has lot of invisible control characters, like "right to left" or "zero width non-joiner", different spaces than the normal space and so on, and I have troubles dealing ...
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Using AutoHotKey to enter the unicode symbols on Windows 7
I'm bilingual user and while writing I use mostly UK keyboard I have this layout set into my computer. However occasionally I want to write something in my native tongue and the math symbols are ...
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Is there a hack to force Twitter not to convert words like ASP.NET to links? [migrated]
Currently, Twitter converts anything that has dot inside it into a link, e.g. ASP.NET becomes http://ASP.NET, Any.DO becomes http://Any.DO etc. I currently make a space if I want the word to stay the ...
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Unicode-based POSIX tools (other than Cygwin) for Windows?
GNU Win32 and MSYS are awesome, but it seems like all of their tools use the ANSI version of the Windows API, rather than the Unicode versions.
Obviously, those are meant for Windows 95 and 98, not ...
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Why some unicode characters are missing in charmap?
In Windows, Character Map doesn't seem to display all of the unicode characters, even if the selected font supports them, and "Character set" selector is "Unicode".
For example, the small envelope ...
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Windows 7: Japanese not displaying in Windows
I cannot view Japanese characters in Windows 7. Even filenames that contain Japanese characters show up as squares in folders. Or error boxes that come up in Windows that would normally contain ...
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My Windows 7 has suddenly stopped displaying Unicode symbols
For some strange reason, my computer suddenly doesn't show certain unicode characters anymore! I have no idea what happened.
Affected applications include Windows Explorer (should be Japanese ...
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Non-unicode characters language in OS X
In Windows, whenever I am facing an incorrect display of non-unicode characters (for me usually Russian (Cyrillic) characters may get displayed as ancient runes =), I go to regional settings, set ...
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How can I remove unicode characters in a Microsoft Word document?
I'm saving a Microsoft Word document as a PDF but it is warning me that there are a few problems including the fact that the document includes Unicode characters. I'm not sure what characters it is ...
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Where did the rules go when I imported my Outlook 2002 PST?
From what I understand, outlook 2002 stores rules (along with basically everything else) in your PST file. When we upgraded to a newer outlook (in this case 2003), the rules disappeared, though ...
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Computer not displaying unicode characters
My computer recently displayed Unicode characters fine. However; it recently stopped displaying them, I can successfully display the characters in notepad on another computer, running the same Win 7 ...
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rsync from HFS+ (OSX) to NFS (FreeNAS) with special characters
I have inadvertently created a mess. I have a drive mounted on a Mac running 10.5.8 and a FreeNAS 0.7.2 box. I had been mounting the FreeNAS share on OSX via SMB, but recently learned that I was doing ...
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Which character encoding is used for ALT-codes?
In Windows, when entering characters using ALT+nnn, which character encoding is being used? And when entering characters with ALT+0nnn, which character encoding is being used? And how do these answers ...
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Related unicode characters are displayed in different sizes or appear misaligned on OS X
I am using a CMS. The special characters ◁(◁) and ▷(▷) do look far smaller on a Mac than on a Windows system (both Firefox).
△(△) and ▽(▽) looks fine ...
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Why choose ISO-8859-1 character set instead of using UTF8 in PuTTY?
I have tried to do some research and I have to admit that I am clueless on this. If my question does not even make sense, I offer you my sincere apology for my ignorance.
PuTTY seems to use ...
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Converting ascii Russian to Russian?
I have a text document that is supposed to be written in Russian but it seems to instead be ascii:
Óñòàíîâêà:
1)Çàïóñêàåì QuidamStudioSetup3.15.exe
2)Ïðè çàïðîñå ñåðèéíîãî íîìåðà ââîäèì
How could I ...
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Is there a key combo that's usable for Unicode characters in the same manner as ASCII characters? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Typing strange letters¿ w/o numpad?
If you open up Window's Character Map and select, say, Arial as the font then you're obviously shown all of the characters that ...
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Unicode problems in Mini Lyrics
Shri guru granth sahib ji is epic granth for sikhs.
I am working on the project for creating karaoke of guru granth sahib. I am using Mini Lyrics for this for synchronizing speech to text. But this ...
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Insert a character with multiple accents on an extended Mac keyboard layout
I can't seem to figure out how to apply both an Umlaut (¨) and the Grave (`) to the the letter 'u'. I'll type one, then the other, then the letter, but only the latter accent is applied, with the ...
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Linux RTF to PDF converter that supports Unicode?
We want to convert RTF files to PDF via the command line on Linux. The RTF files contain Unicode characters escaped in the \uNNNN form (standard since RTF 1.6/Word 2000). Microsoft Word 2010 converts ...
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Unicode characters suddenly start displaying as boxes in some applications
I noticed that Unicode characters suddenly stopped displaying in some applications, so far Notepad++ and Skype, when they were appearing previously. Instead they appear as boxes. They were working ...
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using hp 1050 c to print maps - Unicoe font FAIL
i am using hp 1050 c to print a map from autocad 2007 , i have mutlipule lines of arabic and persian text on the map. the text are just fine in the dwg file but when printing the map, texts get ...
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How to add glyphs from one font into another?
I want to create a new font (TTF or OTF) that contains certain glyphs from one font (e.g. Arial) and certain glyps from another font (i.e. Courier). I know the unicode IDs for the glyphs.
About 200 ...
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GNU Dialog and UTF-8 characters
I'm using GNU dialog in one of my lengthy shell scripts. One of the areas I've got problems with is when I'm asking for an inputBox where the user can type a book's title, mostly in French.
In this ...
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How to enter thése chàràctèrs into arbitrary programs?
Is there any way to allow the classic "Ctrl-Apostrophe-E"-style combos, which input accented characters, work in any text box, rather than just in special programs like Wordpad or Microsoft Word?
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How can I understand what characters an application support?
I use ProShow application and it seems it doesn't support the whole unicode characters, for examples this character: À ( U+00C0 ) with font Arial, replace it with a question mark (?).
Didn't find ...
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Windows tool to convert large text file from UTF-8 to “Windows Unicode” (UTF-16)
I need to view large Unicode text files (current version is 1,975,034,480 bytes) on Windows 7.
Normally I prefer UTF-8 but, but after looking on SuperUser it seems the best Windows large file viewer ...
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Using the “Combining Enclosing Circle” character in Word
Is there a way to use the “Combining Enclosing Circle” UNICODE character (codepoint 20DD) together with some other character in Word 2010 to actually form a circled character? There are glyphs for ...
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Typing fi ligature
I'm trying to type "fi" ligature ("fi") on Windows 7. Its unicode code is FB01, or 64257. I tried the two first methods on this page (Alt+fb01 and Alt064257), but they didn't work.
How to type it?
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Is it possible to change the characters BBEdit uses to display invisibles (tab, space)?
I find the triangle and the diamond look almost the same at a glance, and distinguishing between these is my main reason for wanting invisibles enabled (so I can clean up code files that use ...
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Convert unicode to corresponding text
I use "Char" to convert an ascii number to a character. What do I use to convert a unicode number to a character?
I'm building a Hebrew conversion chart. For example, 1489 is the letter "BET". I ...
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How to Make Windows Show Unicode Characters Properly?
How do I make Windows 7 show Unicode all characters properly, like those in this question?
Right now I just see squares for some of them.
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Typing a Unicode RLM on Windows XP with a numpad-less keyboard [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Typing strange letters¿ w/o numpad?
My desktop keyboard doesn't have a numpad:
And I like it that way because it saves space on my desk.
However, I want to be ...
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How to view Chinese text in Windows Movie Maker?
I can type Chinese, but when the movie plays, it changes into boxes!
Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem?
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Preserving Greek letters on my PC
How would convert this long table of vocabulary (one column of greek then one of english) in this document into one excel spreadsheet where the Greek characters are preserved? Whenever I try to ...
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Robocopy unilog output is gibberish
I tried to get robocopy in Windows 7 to generate a Unicode log, since I have files with Unicode characters. The command I used:
robocopy C:\mysource D:\mydest /mir /unilog:backup.log /tee
File the ...
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How To Save Unicode Right-To-Left File File So Formatting Retains?
I want to save hebrew text with right-to-left direction into a .TXT or .HTML file but what retains is only Unicode but not right-to-left formatting. My phone (Sony Ericsson W850i) is not a smartphone ...
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Typing Romanian characters in Vim in Windows 7 [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Using Romanian keyboard with gVim
I'm using Vim 7.3 in Windows 7, with the keyboard set to Romanian (Programmers). In the console and any other program, right-alt + s ...
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iTunes importing m3u playlists with special (non-ASCII) characters on OS X
I have Mac OS X and iTunes 10.2.2, and several m3u files (standard, non extended) containing the paths to songs that are already in the library, just not organized into playlists. I ran a Python ...
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Some Unicode alt-codes not working
Here is a list of all special Hungarian characters:
ALT-0193 Á ALT-0225 á
ALT-0201 É ALT-0233 é
ALT-0205 Í ALT-0237 í
ALT-0211 Ó ALT-0214 Ö ALT-0336 Ő
ALT-0243 ó ALT-0246 ö ALT-0337 ő
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Entering Unicode characters by name
Sometimes I want to type Unicode characters (em-dash, quotes, Greek letters sometimes, superscripts etc). It can be done using character codes, but then one needs to look up / memorize them, which is… ...
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How to correct unicode filenames?
I have Windows 7 with NTFS filesystem. I have filenames and directory names like:
Kispál és a Borz - 02 - Tökéletes Helyettes
I want to transform them to:
Kispál és a Borz - 02 - Tökéletes ...
