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.
277
questions
0
votes
1
answer
40
views
7-zip unzipping files via command line where the zip contains special characters
7-zip was used in Windows to compress a batch of folders that contained file paths and file names that uses special characters such as € and accented letters.
When the command line prompt is used to ...
- 1
0
votes
1
answer
45
views
What is this character?
I'm running an Ubuntu machine and RDP'ing into a Windows 10 server. There's a .txt file on the server which when opened in Windows' text editor looks like this:
when I open a terminal and typethe ...
- 1
2
votes
1
answer
29
views
How do I send multiple Ctrl-C signals without releasing Ctrl key in Windows?
My setup is a Windows 11 workstation running Putty to connect to an embedded device over FTDI USB-serial adapter. For most cases this works flawlessly.
The failing bit is when I need to send multiple ...
- 133
1
vote
1
answer
123
views
FFmpeg issue with special char "@" in png file name
I just discovered an issue with ffmpeg when trying to create an mp4 video file from multiple png files that contain @ in the file name.
So I'm calling
ffmpeg_exe -y -f concat -i temp@temp.mp4.txt -...
- 11
-1
votes
2
answers
632
views
I am using a MacBook Pro and how to type special characters like ~ and ^ in Kali Linux terminal not working
I'm running Kali Linux on my Macbook Pro and it is not recognizing my keyboard. I am unable to type special characters like ~ and ˆ.
- 1
0
votes
0
answers
84
views
How to remove unknown character from a filename in Linux
I am using Nextcloud to sync files from computer A (unknown computer - i'm guessing Mac) to computer B (Rocky Linux server).
Some of the invoices that come from computer A have special characters in ...
- 125
-1
votes
1
answer
29
views
Deleting files that start with " or '
Sort of noob Linux user here.
I would like to delete a number of files that are contained in a list. The files may contain spaces in their names. I can create a file that goes something like this:
rm -...
- 1
1
vote
2
answers
89
views
How to quickly determine which files contain only NULLs so they can be safely deleted (Windows)?
A friend has thousands of files that likely contain nothing but NULLs (ASCII 0).
(If interested, see this Super User QA to learn why).
The files range in size from 650 bytes to ~200MB (with the ...
3
votes
5
answers
716
views
How to enter special characters like ∞, ˚ in macOS?
I can't enter special characters like ∞, ˚ in macOS. How to enter this character in macOS?
- 295
1
vote
1
answer
677
views
Variable with special character in a string in zsh
I'm trying to create a variable $creds using the command line for storing credentials that I use over and over in some terminal sessions. The value in the string looks like -u myusername -p mypass!...
- 33
0
votes
7
answers
18k
views
How to enter accented characters like "ü" and "ö" in Windows?
In Windows, I can't type characters like ü and ö. How do I enter these characters on Windows?
- 295
1
vote
1
answer
671
views
Double special characters on windows US-international keyboard layout
I use the US-international layout on windows 10 to be able to write accents, ñ or ¿(Spanish), but whenever I want to write some standard special characters (not all), like ^, ~, `, ' or " , I ...
- 13
4
votes
2
answers
4k
views
Input variable with special characters
I have some existing command files that ask for the password. These passwords are now system generated and may include special characters such as a pipe |.
set /p pw=Enter password:
When the set ...
- 53
0
votes
0
answers
50
views
Letter 'ć' doesn't work in chrome ('ą', 'ę', etc. work)
On a Mac, Monterey, in Chrome whenever I press Option + c I expect 'ć' to appear. It never does. That's a special chars in the Polish language. Other special chars appear (ą, ę, ł, ó, ż, ź, ś, ń), ...
- 163
1
vote
0
answers
29
views
Typing capital delta using ALT code in Windows [duplicate]
I was trying to type the capital delta using the ALT code given here. But when I type ALT+916, I get "ö" instead of the capital delta. Why is this happening? How may I type the capital delta?...
- 185
0
votes
1
answer
232
views
Type superscripts of multiple characters to express mathematical exponents
If in linux I type CTRL-shift-U, followed by a unicode control code, I can type a superscript.
So if I type 10, followed by CTRL-shift-U, followed by b9, I can get 10¹.
How though do I write something ...
- 174
0
votes
0
answers
28
views
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.
12
votes
6
answers
70k
views
How Can I Type A Checkmark (✓) Via Alt Code?
Presently, every time I want to check something off I have to Google "checkmark", copy the symbol from a 3rd party website, paste it into a text editor to remove formatting, and then copy ...
- 541
2
votes
2
answers
5k
views
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 ...
- 93
0
votes
1
answer
237
views
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 ...
- 103
0
votes
1
answer
36
views
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(...
- 1
0
votes
0
answers
33
views
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,...
user944444
0
votes
0
answers
215
views
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:...
- 2,248
0
votes
0
answers
22
views
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)
...
- 197
0
votes
1
answer
204
views
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: ...
- 169
1
vote
1
answer
124
views
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 ...
- 25
2
votes
1
answer
103
views
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 ...
- 21
1
vote
0
answers
1k
views
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 ...
- 301
0
votes
1
answer
367
views
Mac equivalent of Windows + Period [duplicate]
On Windows, pressing Windows+Period opens a menu that allows you to type Emoji, a few multicharacter emoticons, and characters from a list of symbols that's similar to the list used by MS Word. Is ...
- 103
0
votes
1
answer
2k
views
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 ...
- 705
2
votes
1
answer
913
views
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%| ...
- 534
0
votes
1
answer
81
views
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 ...
- 185
3
votes
1
answer
1k
views
Type Alt Characters in Google Chrome Browser Without Switching Tabs
How do you type special characters in Google Chrome when Alt+# is a shortcut to switch to that tab?
I've been unable to find an answer to this online. I'm aware that in Linux I can use Ctrl+Shift + U ...
- 221
1
vote
2
answers
10k
views
How to display special non-ASCII Unicode characters in Notepad++? (regardless if file saved and reopened)
When bookmarking a URL like:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youcare-search/
You get this bookmark title:
YouCare - The charitable search engine – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox
Then, if ...
3
votes
2
answers
3k
views
Are there special characters that can be used for sorting but not displaying?
We have a short simple list of text strings on a platform that forces alphabetical order. We'd like to have a custom order without prefixing numbers or other distracting characters (it's a customer-...
- 335
-1
votes
1
answer
281
views
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?
0
votes
1
answer
377
views
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 ...
- 1
0
votes
1
answer
154
views
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 ...
- 101
-1
votes
1
answer
207
views
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 ...
- 795
0
votes
1
answer
207
views
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'...
- 121
2
votes
1
answer
1k
views
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 ...
- 1,006
0
votes
0
answers
39
views
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 ...
- 53
0
votes
0
answers
395
views
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 ...
- 177
1
vote
0
answers
57
views
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'...
- 141
0
votes
2
answers
739
views
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 ...
- 43
0
votes
0
answers
48
views
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?
- 131
1
vote
2
answers
1k
views
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 ...
0
votes
1
answer
1k
views
How to pass unknown command line arguments containing special characters (bash)?
I am trying to figure out how to solve a problem with a "$" causing command expansion as part of a password field. How do you backslash the "$" when using command substitution (unknown) arguments? (i....
- 1
0
votes
1
answer
1k
views
Invalid pipe character in file name
I’m on Windows 7 Pro x64 and I’ve downloaded a file using Firefox and it’s named guerriére | warrior.PNG with a pipe character (|) in file name and I can’t find how to delete or rename it.
Running ...
1
vote
2
answers
2k
views
Command works locally but returns "event not found" when invoked with ssh
I want to check for read only file systems. I wrote this awk command and it works fine:
awk '{ if ( $4 ~ /ro,/ && $2 !~ /sys/ ) {print $2} }' /proc/mounts
I want to use this command with ssh....
- 302