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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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 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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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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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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How do I escape Google functional characters?

How do you search searches that include Google functional characters, like - * " on Google? For example, how would one search for "Hello World" with the quotes included into the search?
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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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