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How to remove this symbol "^@" with vim?

I have some files that are corrupted with this symbol: ^@ It's not part of the string; it's not searchable. How do I substitute this symbol with nothing, or how do I delete this symbol? Here is ...
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How to type the Euro Symbol € on US English keyboard in Windows 10 without a numpad or "AltGr" key?

There are already many questions about typing the € symbol on keyboards where it is not one of the keycaps. Unless I have missed one of them, the answers fall into several categories: Alt+E, which ...
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How can I type tilde (~) in the Ubuntu terminal with a Norwegian keyboard?

I am using Ubuntu terminal and want to type this: sudo -H -u gitosis gitosis-init < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub However I am not able to find tilde (~) on my Norwegian keyboard. Can anyone tell me how to ...
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Inserting © (copyright symbol) using Microsoft Word

How to insert a © (copyright symbol) using Microsoft Word 2016 (or any other version)?
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What's the proper name of that symbol to collapse/expand nodes in a directory tree?

I'm pretty embarrassed to admit I don't know this one...I just realized I've always just described it, not actually named it :) So, that folder/directory collapse/expand symbol thingy, you know, ...
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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 ...
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How do you use more emoticons in Office Communicator?

Is there any way to use emoticons beyond the default drop down list in Office Communicator 2007 R2? Do you have to install them, or can you just type in different codes? Is this even possible, or are ...
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How to type Euro symbol in keyboard that only have `$`?

is there a way to type Euro symbol (something like shortcut) when my keyboard doesn't have that symbol ? My keyboard only have $. Each time I want to type Euro symbol what I do is copy paste from ...
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Is there a keyboard shortcut in Word for typing an arrow symbol?

You often see people using -> as an arrow, but I hate how it looks. I always use the → symbol but to do so I have to insert > symbol, which is annoying. Is there any way (shortcut) to insert ...
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What does `LESS=+/EXAMPLE\:` mean?

In man parallel_tutorial (for GNU parallel) I’ve found the following black magic: LESS=+/EXAMPLE\: man parallel Searching around in the man pages for man, less, and bash, it appears this may have ...
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How to remove strange space symbols in Word

I got Word files from one guy, written in Russian and convert them to HTML. These files contain some strange white-space characters, for example: This looks like small zero (I changed mode to show ...
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How to type mathematical symbols in gmail?

How can we type mathematical symbols like square-root, omega, integration, differentiation etc in gmail
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What is the ALT-Code for Irony Mark (؟)

Is there an alt code for the irony mark (؟)? If there isn't, is there some way I can set my keyboard to create an ؟ when I press Alt Gr+Y ?
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How do you type "`" or "~" when grave key is used to switch between keyboard languages?

In window you can use grave key to switch between keyboard languages. How do you type grave and Tilda symbols after that?
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Easiest way to type a hyphen on the Mac?

I can type a minus (-), an en dash (–) and an em dash (—) easily, I often need hyphens (‐) though. Is there an easy keyboard shortcut? If not how else should I go about inserting hyphens into my prose?...
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Displaying unicode character U+2661 ("White Heart Suit") in Windows 7

I can't get this character: ♡ to display properly in Windows Explorer, it instead shows up as a symbol of three lines, similar to this ☰. The strangest thing is that if i use the heart symbol beside ...
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How to make "Real number symbol" (ℝ) in Mathematica

How can I write the "Real number symbol" ℝ in Mathematica?
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Regular expression ignoring 9 occurrences of a special character '|'

Need regular expression to parse a log line, I have to select data after 10th occurrences of pipe symbol | Sample log line; Info device Allow:FWD|TCP|data1|data2|data3|data4|data5|data6|data7|...
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Strange square-numerical symbols show as characters in Firefox

I have been seeing these strange symbols for a while now, and am curious as to what they are, and why they appear. Sometimes, they appear so frequently in one page, the writing is indecipherable. The ...
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Weird symbols on Mac

Since I've had my mac, I keep seeing this weird symbol. Till today, it had been only in the place of bullet points in OpenOffice.org. The first pictures shows this in a .doc file created on a Windows ...
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Alternative symbol for dot/period/full stop that will work at the end of a folder name?

I'm looking for an alternative period sign that will work at the end of a folder name. It's not super important, but in my music organizing there is an album title that is stylized with a period at ...
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What is this symbol `¬` and how to remove it from an MS Word 2013 file?

I used a OCR program to convert some scanned pages to an ms word file. After the conversion is possible to found the symbol ¬ in the middle of many words. I tried to search and replace it but word is ...
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Quickest way to write £ on US Keyboard?

What's the quickest way to write the pound (£) sign on a US Keyboard? Currently I use Alt+0163 but it's not very quick because my laptop doesn't have a number pad so I need to set num lock on. Is ...
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What are the general differences between a format and a protocol

I am still unsure about the distinction. I know that formats have definitions for symbols that represent data and how data is structured.
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What are these unknown symbols that show up in my HTML when using Notepad?

These characters can be found by me in Notepad when writing HTML. It absolutely causing problems for me. I can’t even delete it! So does anyone knows this symbol is or why it appears? I’ve tried to ...
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How to write < or > on an ANSI keyboard with Estonian EST ET language?

I recently bought Asus Rog with a US ANSI keyboard. It doesn't have a < > button between the Z and shift buttons. How can I write < or > on this keyboard using an Estonian EST ET keyboard ...
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How to get box with rightward arrow symbol in MS word?

I tried searching all the symbols in character map and in Microsoft word's symbol section for the following symbol but couldn't find it. Box with rightward arrow: People usually use this for ...
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Weird  symbol after every word in database

I can't figure out what this  symbol is. I have a webpage with some textboxes that allow users to submit info to a database. A few of the users are copying and pasting sentences from Microsoft Word. ...
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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 to show "symbols" for bash script in VScode?

In the following screenshot we can see that the outline tab for a bash script is empty, as it does not shows any symbols. Do I need to enable any extension for this? Any suggestions?
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Where to find a specific LaTeX symbol

The symbol I'm looking for can have several names, I want to use for "contraction" (of a measure and a set). It should look like the lower left half of \square, that is, like \llcorner but bigger. I'...
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Symbols in Excel graphs [closed]

I am a scientist and would like to use Excel to graph data. I know many people who use Excel graphing. However, Excel graphing will not let you use symbols in the Titles, in the axes labels, or in ...
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How to insert the "move" icon into Microsoft Word

Is the "move" icon available in Microsoft Word? Is there an alt code for it?
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Specifying Multiplicity in a Visio Database (ERD) Diagram

Is there a way to manually edit the cardinality/multiplicity symbols on the end of a database ERD made in Visio? The category I'm using is in Visio 2003 under Database -> Database Model Diagram I ...
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Cmd.exe - what do these symbols mean in ftype command?

Just trying to understand something here.. In playing around with file extensions, type assoc .bat and get .bat=batfile, then ftype batfile and get "%1" %*. The same happens with ".exe". Whereas when ...
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What does the anchor symbol mean in MS word?

What does this anchor symbol mean in MS word ? It comes up to the left of some images when 'show hidden formatting' is on. I think it might be restricting group selection of an image (text boxes and ...
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Unknown i/o port symbol on 15-pin D connector

I've never seen this symbol before, and can't seem to find it on the web. The symbol appears to be an exclamation mark partly intersecting a horizontal (h axis longer than v axis) lozenge. I say "...
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Is there a double caret sign?

Basically, is there a rotated right/left version of 《 》, such that the symbol would be pointing upward and not sideways. It's for a visualization project and I tried the "^" sign but it's too narrow ...
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Why does this strange symbol appear on each line in my Linux boot log?

[154G Each line of my boot.log file in Ubuntu has an escape symbol that is two zeros on a top row and 1b on a bottom row surrounded by a one line frame, then the text 154G then the expected [ ok ] or ...
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Trying to conditional format a spreadsheet containing values with less-than symbol

I am having a real tough time here writing a conditional formatting formula for my spreadsheet. I have a table of concentrations from a lab analysis, and various results have come back as below a ...
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Cannot type @£$ symbols in Windows 8.1

I'm having this weird problem with my Windows 8.1 that I'm unable to type-in @ £ $ symbols with my Swedish keyboard. I know the first probable answer would be to check my keyboard settings and correct ...
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How to insert Entailment Symbol into Word Document?

How can I insert the entailment symbol into a Microsoft Word 2007 document?
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What does this nonprinting symbol mean in Microsoft Word?

I have a document from another editor that includes a non-printing character (it goes away when paragraph icon in ribbon is toggled) that I do not recognize: I don't know how to search for an image, ...
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Saving a new unicode character in microsoft word

I'm wondering if it's possible to save a new unicode character (e.g. 2B95 which is the black right arrow) in the list of the microsoft word symbols. Online I found only how to type a symbol by using ...
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How to insert a “¾” into a Word doc?

How do I insert a Unicode ¾ into a Word doc, either using symbols or unicode? I have tried going to “Insert > Symbols > Math Operators” and looking on the net for the unicode for ¾.
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Why are my Alt codes different from what is generally reported online?

I was attempting to type the symbol for DC (direct current), I still haven't found it but in the process I noticed that the codes found online generate something completely different on my computer. I ...
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HTML symbol: Search for quotation marks from a page in Chrome

Some of my pages have different languages. When I try to search the open double quotation marks exactly “ (U+201C), Chrome returns also ” (U+201D) and " (U+0022). What I do is to press Ctrl + F and ...
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Are different non-alphanumeric symbols—when used at the beginning of a filename—treated differently when sorting alphabetically?

I’ve long used the trick of adding a dot to the beginning of a folder name so that it always appears at the top of a list of folders when they are sorted alphabetically. But is there an “alphabetical”...
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Windows text font that has a glyph for Unicode character u2245 (i.e. approximately equal to)

I'm looking for a font that has the glyph for Unicode character U+2245 ("approximately equal to", the equality sign with a tilde above it) for use on Windows 7. I have checked the main fonts and so ...
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Correct way to encode mixed width text in Unicode?

From what I read, the fullwidth glyphs in Unicode are provided solely for backward compatibility and lossless roundtrip with legacy standards such as Shift-JIS. The rationale seems to be that Unicode ...
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