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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 solution ...
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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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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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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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If I need to find documentation about a symbol, what's the best way to search the web? [duplicate]
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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 ...
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What are these funny characters on Twitter?
Recently I've noticed many strange characters appearing on Twitter.
Based on one persons 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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How can I create a Facebook page for a company who's name less than 5 characters long?
I would like to know the right procedure for a companies that have less that 5 characters to register their page username.
Facebook Pages have this restriction "Usernames must be at least 5 ...
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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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How to search the internet for terms with special characters
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 do I find on the Internet hits for a word with a dash in the middle?
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 ...
