special-characters

I have a file, which is in XML format (consists just of root start and end tags, and children of the root). The text elements of the children contain the ampersand symbol &. In XML it is not allowed to have this symbol in order the document to be valid, and when I tried to process the file using the DOM API in Java and an XML parser, I obtained parsing errors. Therefore, I have replaced & with & , and I processed the file successfully: I had to extract the values of the text elements in different plain text files. When I opened these newly created text files, I expected to see & , but there

I have a deployment script to which i have to pass LDAP password as cmd paramater. actual password: foo\$ser"ver\\ 1 (contains three space characters: at the beginning, before 1 , and after 1 ) e.g ...bin>deployment.bat LDAPPassword= foo\$ser\"ver\\ 1 Note:There are spaces in the password as shown at the beginning. The deployment.bat calls a class to which the above parameter is passed as an argument. The problem is that the class receives 2 distinct arguments: args[0]= foo\$ser"ver\\ //The space after \\ is omitted args[1]=1 //The space before and after 1 is omitted How do I pass this

I am having trouble with some special slovak characters (for example č, ň and ť). They are disappearing in the itextsharp generated pdf. From what I've been able to find, this problem has to do with encoding of my BaseFont . Currently I am using this: BaseFont.CreateFont(BaseFont.HELVETICA, iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.CP1250, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED) Someone suggested that this should work: BaseFont.CreateFont(BaseFont.HELVETICA, iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED) But it throws this exception error: System.ArgumentException was caught Message='Identity-H' is not a

Why does XML display error on certain special characters and some are ok? For instance, below will create error, <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> <Customers> <Customer> <Name>Löic</Name> </Customer> </Customers> but this is ok, <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> <Customers> <Customer> <Name>&</Name> </Customer> </Customers> I convert the special character through php - htmlentities('Löic',ENT_QUOTES) by the way. How can I get around this? Thanks. EDIT: I found that it works fine if I use numeric character such as Lóic now I have to find how to use php to convert special characters

I'm using the middle dot - · - a lot in my website. The ASCII is · , which works fine. However, there are still some problems with some users not seeing the symbol. Is there a very close but more widely supported symbol like this, or is there a way to output the symbol to ensure full support? Whether you use the actual · character or the HTML · entity, make sure ISO-8859-1 is being reported to the browser correctly, either in the charset attribute of the HTTP Content-Type response header, or in a <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" value="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> tag (HTML 4 and earlier) or

I am creating a left navigation system utilizing xml and xsl. Everything was been going great until I tried to use a special character in my xml document. I am using » and I get th error. reason: Reference to undefined entity 'raquo'. error code: -1072898046 How do I make this work? You are trying to use an HTML entity in a non-HTML or non-XHTML document. These entities are declared in the document's Document Type Definition (DTD) . You should use the numerical Unicode version of the entity reference . For example, in the case of » you should use » Alternatively, you can define them in your

I was toying around with the :before pseudo class in css, trying to insert a special character but the result is not what I was hoping for. Using: .read_more:before { content: "»"; margin-right: 6px; } I get the character I want, but with an  character before it and using: .read_more:before { content: "»"; margin-right: 6px; } I get the complete » on the html page. I can think of a couple of ways to solve my problem, but I was wondering what the correct syntax would be if I wanted to use the :before pseudo class. By the way, my doctype is: <!doctype html> <html lang="en"> Try specifying <meta