In IE, alt code 12, which is supposed to be the female symbol, appears as a question mark.
I have tried clicking the 'View' button in the menu bar, clicking 'Character Encoding', then choosing 'Unicode (UTF-8)', which I've been told would help. But it still shows up as the question mark. I have tried inserting the <div> tags around the character like so: <div style="Unicode"> and </div>, but to no avail. And I have recently downloaded/switched to Firefox web browser and tried everything previously mentioned with the new browser. It has not helped. What should I do?
There are no “alt codes” in HTML documents. If you type Alt 12 in a Windows program , it typically inserts the byte 12, which is interpreted as ♀ U+2640 FEMALE SIGN if the character encoding is Windows Code Page 850. In an HTML document, it won’t have such a meaning, unless you declare cp-850 (aka. IBM-850) as the encoding and the browser supports it.
The safe way is to save your HTML file as UTF-8 encoded and declare it as so encoded. If this is not possible for some reason, use the character reference ♀ for FEMALE SIGN.
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If I copy and paste the four symbols from the character selection panel (I'm on macOS) they change to the following: ♠️ ♣️ ♥️ ♦️, whereas I'd like the heart and diamond to be red.
EDIT: Interestingly, i've noticed that if I type the sequence 👁🗨♥️, and then I hit backspace when the cursor is between those two characters, they both transform into 👁♥️! (the same happens with the other three)
Can someone explain what is happening?
I guess this is because your browser doesn't know about these special characters. But I think you can check this page https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_utf_symbols.asp
and replace special characters with unicode codes from page
or from this page http://graphemica.com/%E2%9D%A4
I'm trying to paste content from a word doc into a tinymce instance. The content contains the § (paragraph) character, but TinyMce changes it into an li tag.
Is there a way to config TinyMce to allow special characters like §?
What you are seeing is behavior around the Paste plugin when a sentence starts with that character.
When it starts with that character the Paste plugin treats that like a list element. If the character is anywhere other than the first character TinyMCE does not create a list element.
The best thing to do is to open a bug report on the issue tracker for TinyMCE so the developers are aware of this issue.
https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/issues
I have searched all over the Internet for an answer. I have achieved this once before, but I can't remember how I did this...
I have a long text file with alot of encoded characters, for example
\u0119,\u015b\\u0107
How do I change characters like \u0119 to ę, etc?
This question is not off-topic. In past I also use notepad++ for programing. Today i use Atom. You can find a lot questions about notepad++ in stack overflow - for instance: Removing duplicate rows in Notepad++ or this Convert tabs to spaces in Notepad++ (and many more). So please do not give minus points to this question.
Answer: I assume that when you go to menu>Encoding you will see 'Encde in UTF-8.'
I use this site to create part of my answer: https://superuser.com/questions/576431/notepad-inserting-special-unicode-characters-in-utf-8
If you see character codes like \u0119,\u015b\u0107 in your file this probably mean that they are just on encoded - and their codes are put expliicty as raw text.
So to change this codes into UTF-8 characters, go to
menu>run>run> type: charmap> click run
the windows charmap will show up, so check ''advanced view' an there put you character code (without \u prefix - so for instance only 0119) in filed 'go to Unicode'. Then click on 'select' and 'copy' and close window
Then go to menu>search>replace and in filed 'replece with' past you character, and inf filed 'find what' put its code (with prefix, for instance \u0119). And click 'Replace All'
Do steps 1-3 for each character code (you can check thad your done when you click menu>find> and type '\u' in "find what". If you not find any code then you job is end.
I am new to notepad++ and like it very much, since I can customize how my text documents look more easily than with wordpad. However, I would like to know if it’s possible to enter accented characters like in wordpad (I thought it was a windows thing, but perhaps it isn’t). In wordpad, I can type, for instance, ctrl-’ then i to get an accented í character. Similarly, I can type ctrl-shift-~ then n to get the accented ñ character. It makes it much easier to enter accented characters than copying and pasting from the character map application, or trying to remember code points. When I tried this method in notepad++ I just got the plain character without the accents. I should also mention that when I open documents with such accented characters already present they appear just as expected. Is there a way to enter accented characters like this in notepad++ using only the keyboard? I am using the latest notepad++ under Windows 7.
In Notepad++ you can go to “Edit” then select “Character Panel” near the bottom of the drop down menu. It will show you the ASCII set available which includes most accented characters. You find the character you want and there will be a number for it, to easily use that, press and hold your ALT key, then, on your keypad on the right side of your keyboard type zero followed by the number for that character. So for something like “ñ” for example, the code for it is 241, so you would press ALT and then type 0241 on the keypad while holding down ALT and you will get the character you need. That works in most Windows programs, even in here.
This only works for ASCII characters in the range of 0 to 255. I don't know of a method other than copying and pasting from the “Character Map” app available in Windows for Unicode. Though I did test Wordpad with the Decimal number of the Hex value you see for a Unicode character above 255 and it will work with the ALT+#### in there, and probably other places, but it doesn't work in Notepad or Notepad++ for some strange reason, sadly. Two I use a lot and have memorized are ALT+0147 and ALT+0148 for the quotation marks “like these”, so once you use the numbers enough you tend to get used to them, or you can jot down the ones you use the most.
For anyone searching for a solution and coming across this page, try this (Windows): install and use the US International keyboard instead of the plain US keyboard. Search for "windows keyboard us international install" or something similar. I liked the techlanguage.com write-up on it and the teckangaroo.com step by step on how to install. Hope this helps someone in future looking around as I was earlier today for how to easily meet this need.
You can make your own keyboard layout to enter arbitrary characters anywhere in Windows, using MSKLC. Here's one I made earlier.
I think it is configured in the input method. With input method containing the characters you mentioned, you can press key combinations to get special letters.
You can add a keyboard layout preset in Windows. Under "Language and Regions" - "Language" - "Language settings" - "Input method" settings in Control Panel, you can add all what you want. Like this:
Switch keyboard layout with Alt + Shift.
I would like to deal with floral formulae by my DSL coded in groovy, so I need some special symbols such as female sign and Superscripts and Subscripts.
Thanks to the great answers that I found on stackoverflow questions like this now I'm able to
insert special unicode symbols in source code in VIM (MacVim) this way:
CTRL+V. U 2 6 4 0.
However, I would like to be able to do the same in Eclipse IDE (I'm trying to use Groovy/Grails Tool Suite Version: 3.1.0.RELEASE to develop a grails project)
Question: How can I insert in the Eclipse editor a 4 digit unicode symbol by knowing the encoding ( without cut & paste from another source) ?
There appear to be a few ways to get the unicode characters on a Mac. The first few don't appear to be what you want exactly, but included for completeness.
1) Make sure System Preferences->Keyboard "show keyboard & character viewers in menu bar" is selected. Then you can click on that (normally accessible via option+cmd+T, but not in eclipse) to get the Character Viewer. You can then double-click a special character you want and it should insert at cursor.
2) Under the default setup, you should be able to click Option + key to get an alternate character. Use the keyboard viewer from #1 to see what maps to what. Note you can switch to some more mappings using Shift at the same time. This will only get you a subset of unicode characters.
3) From here: Under System Preferences->Languages & Text, go to Input Sources tab. Select the Unicode Hex Input source. You may need to assign switching input sources (under System Prefs->Keyboard->Keyboard Shortcuts->Keyboard) to a hotkey combo (default probably conflicts with spotlight, so change to something else). After that, you should be able to use said hotkey combo to switch to the Unicode Input Source - in that mode, you can hold Option down and enter a hex 4-digit key code, which will result in the character being placed at cursor.