special-characters

I am retrieving articles from my blog to my webiste from the mysqlDb. The articles are displayed just fine on the blog but on the website some characters such as ţ,ş,ă etc are replaced with a black square with a question mark inside . I have "UTF-8" set on my document the same as on the blog. You need to tell to MySQL that the connection must be made in UTF-8. To do so use the function mysql_set_charset (you need PHP 5.2.3). If you use PHP < 5.2.3 try : mysql_query("SET character_set_results = 'utf8', character_set_client = 'utf8', character_set_connection = 'utf8', character_set_database =

I am trying to work with a path in Python 2.7 This is what I am trying to do in my main class: program = MyProgram() program.doSomething('C:\Eclipse\workspace\MyProgram\files\12345678_Testing1_ABCD005_Static_2214_File12.txt') Inside the function doSomething(filePath) the string already looks like this: So there is a kind of special character plus some characters are removed copletely. What could cause this problem? \ is escape char in Python. According to docs , you have created string with \f ASCII Formfeed (FF) character. String literals can be enclosed in matching single quotes ( ' ) or

I have multiple checkbox and their field name but i dont know where i have done wrong the name of the field changes i am unable to find out where is the problem. Here my screen shot when checkbox values were fine: here is fine fields working good And this here is screen shot there is multiple questions marks like ???? and these becoming annoying this fields value are with ???? there should not any question marks in this field And my form where these checkboxes value are: <form id="preferences_form" role="form" method="POST" novalidate action="{{ url('/preference') }}" class="mujucet

I'm having a problem selecting strings from database. The problem is if you have McDonald's in row and if you are searching with a string mcdonalds it wouldn't find any results. Any suggestions? I forgot to mention that I'm using LIKE in WHERE sentence. If your search requirements are to ignore certain characters, you can remove them during a search by replace ing them with a blank. This answer solves your problem: SELECT * FROM restaurants WHERE replace(name, '''', '') like '%mcdonalds%'; -- This will match "McDonald's" FYI, a single quote literal ( ' ) is written as a doubled single quote (

I'm looking for way to convert chars like āžšķūņrūķīš to azskunrukis . In other words, to replace ā with a , ž with z and so. Is there anything built-in, or I should create my own "library" of from-to symbols? Take a look at iconv's transliteration capabilities : <?php $text = "This is the Euro symbol '€'."; echo 'Original : ', $text, PHP_EOL; echo 'TRANSLIT : ', iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT", $text), PHP_EOL; echo 'IGNORE : ', iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//IGNORE", $text), PHP_EOL; echo 'Plain : ', iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1", $text), PHP_EOL; ?> The above example will output something

Trying to use the jspdf lib @1.4.1 to convert text to pdf, the output sometimes gets so ugly and unreadable, because the text contains some special characters, like: the left single quotation mark U+2018 , or the right one U+2019 , or symbols like → , or the ı in Kadıköy ... how can i sanitize/normalize such texts? or is there any option is jspdf that i can use to fix this problem? update: to reproduce the problem , just use this string: '→Kadıköy' in this example https://parall.ax/products/jspdf , line 9, you will see that the arrow is converted to !’ and the ı is converted to 1 (FYI, Kadıköy