Questions tagged [special-characters]
For questions about symbols not appearing on a standard keyboard and those that do but act in a non-standard way. May include: accented (eg é in café), codepoints outside ASCII 32-126, emoticons etc (see tag [emoji]), escape (eg \ and ~), non-English language (eg Greek and Hebrew), invisible (eg line breaks and NBSP), symbols used in equations and formulae, wildcards (eg ? and *) and others that do not behave as normal English alphabet/numbers/punctuation
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Creating Blank Link Messages in Telegram: Word Joiner vs. Soft Hyphen
In Telegram, there are situations where I prefer to create a link without displaying the link text. To achieve this, I can use two characters:
Word joiner: U+2060
Soft hyphen: U+00AD
Which option is ...
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How can I search for a keyword with special characters in Google Search?
I want to search for what += means, but Google won't return any documents.
Also when I come across some PHP code I don't understand I can't search for the keywords as written.
How can I search for ...
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Why doesn't Google give search results for '*' [asterisk]? [closed]
You can search for anything on Google, right? At least, so I thought. I was trying to see how the special characters get encoded in the url, like how & gets converted to %26. I started searching ...
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How do I find on the Internet hits for a word with a dash in the middle? [duplicate]
Background: I tried to find information about the tool python-config, but a Google search brought up mainly hits for python's config module.
Digging a bit deeper, the issue is that Google treats the ...
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How do I escape Google functional characters?
How do you search searches that include Google functional characters, like
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on Google?
For example, how would one search for "Hello World" with the quotes included into the search?
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Does GitHub have an escape character for their markup?
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I realize that markup is implementation without a specification but it basically is just a tiny little node stemming from SGML and the like. On GitHub I always use the ` symbol with a ...
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Search for special characters, SymbolHound.com is down, alternative [closed]
Do you know pages similar to SymbolHound.com which contain the use of special characters searches? Some alternatives and why this site stopped working? Google cannot cope with searching for phrases ...
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how to check if a special case character is in a google sheet cell?
I working on google sheets files where any special case character (any character other than [a-z,A-Z,0-9] ) is forbidden so to confirm this condition is true I need to check that every character in ...
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Search websites whose urls contain a specific word
I'm wondering if it's possible to search all the websites whose url contains a specific word.
Example: I'd like to search all the websites with the word ".uni??" in their url ("?" ...
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How do I escape formatting characters in Slack?
Slack uses various characters for its own markdown formatting.
How can I enter a message with those reserved characters escaped?
e.g. Is it possible to send a message exactly like this:
*I don't ...
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How do I insert foreign characters in Gmail?
If I want to include a name with a diacritical mark, such as Zoë or François, I either have to open up a character map, or an online table of ASCII codes, to find the characters to cut and paste into ...
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Does Gmail have a problem sending to emails with dashes in them?
Gmail keeps hanging on me sending an email to [email protected].
Does Gmail not like dashes in the "To:" field?
EDIT: In this case I finally got it to send when I opened the email to a ...
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How do I write an asterisk at the beginning of a line in wiki syntax without transforming into a list item?
When using wiki syntax, if I put an asterisk (*) at the beginning of a line, it gets transformed into a unordered list. How is it possible to have the asterisk to remain as it is when at the beginning ...
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Google Spreadsheets CSV Encoding not UTF-8?
I was assuming that Google spreadsheet exports UTF-8 encoded CSVs. However, this does not seem to be the case — my German Umlauts, etc. (äüöß, etc.) are not recognized, i.e., when opening the file in ...
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Can we "escape" a # word in a Google+ to avoid conversion to a hashtag?
Example : With some software the prefix of a pound-sign / hash / number symbol is significant. We don't want to it to be a hashtag. Here are a couple examples where I've tried to escape text so that ...
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Sending commands over Gmail
Sometimes I send (and receive) long command lines to colleagues over Gmail. When the command spans many lines Gmail adds newline character making me unable to copy the command directly to the terminal....
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Character converter between languages [closed]
Is there such a thing?
I want to convert a text with Latin characters to a text with characters in Chinese, Greek and so on (not translate, just convert).
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If I need to find documentation about a symbol, what's the best way to search the web? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to search the internet for terms with special characters
For example, I wanted to know what the % meant in this python expression. It's the modulo operator, but I would ...
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Is there a search engine that allows you to search for a specific string including special characters that has similar coverage to Google [duplicate]
Let's say I want to search for "100-Coins Star" (with the speech marks to tell Google to search for that specific term).
Google comes up with results for 100 Coins Star.
Ignoring the spaces and dash.
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Use I'm-Feeling-Lucky type URL on 3rd party website
An answer to this post explains that it is possible to use a URL to link somebody to the first web page in a Google Search result, like "I'm feeling lucky" does. For example https://www.google.com/...
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How can I stop apostrophes in names from tripping up formulae?
I'm using a formula to run through a list of names, compare them to a master list and check associated values for the names that appear on both.
=COUNTA( Iferror(QUERY(Requirements!A2:F, "select A ...
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Special characters in GitHub markdown code blocks
Markdown automatically escapes ampersands and angle brackets within a code block, so how is it possible to use special characters that require escaping for example: λ ?
I know that one ...
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What are these funny characters on Twitter?
Recently I've noticed many strange characters appearing on Twitter. Based on one person's joke tweet I read I think they may be emoji or something similar.
How can I get these displaying properly in ...
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Twitter Bio intersection character - how to insert?
I have a tagline I use on my webpage and email signature: People Plants Place with the intersection symbol ∩ between first two strings:
I'd like to use this in my Twitter bio but no success ...
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How do I generate RSS feeds for YouTube channels with non-English characters in their names?
I create RSS feeds for YouTube channels using this formula:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=**channel or user name**
But this method doesn't seem to work for, for example, this channel....
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Yahoo Mail is not allowing the entry of Polish letters
In Polish we have letters that need a dot over Z for example. I am able to type them using the keyboard as Alt + z to yield ż.
I can write it anywhere else but within the Yahoo Mail text. When I ...
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Google Docs / Drive: Why are some Greek symbols not properly displayed?
My friend shared with me a Google document. This document includes some Greek symbols like tao, lambda, omega, sigma, etc. But I can't see these symbols! I also tried to search symbols by the menu ...
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Searching symbols, non-letter characters in Google [duplicate]
I'd like to search the internet for a string containing a few symbols, namely dashes, pipes and angle brackets.
I tried searching for them by typing them into Google but it seems to ignore the ...
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How to search the internet for terms with special characters [closed]
As I learnt from this post, Google has no ability to search for special characters. Let's say I want to search for ss!. Are there any other search engines that can achieve this? Please do not propose ...
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How does Google handle special characters?
According to Google Basic search help
Generally, most punctuation and special characters are ignored, however there is a growing list of punctuation and symbols that are recognized in searches.
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How to search a string which includes "$" in Google [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I search for a keyword with special characters in Google Search?
I want to search this string in Google
'IPC$'
But Google always removes the $, even if I try to ...
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