special-characters

This question already has an answer here: Objective C HTML escape/unescape 14 answers I'm getting text from Internet and it contains html entities (i.e. ó = ó). I want to show this text into a custom iPhone cell. I've tried to use a UIWebView into my custom cell but I prefer to use a multiline UILabel. The problem is I can't find any way of replacing these HTML entities. Check out my NSString category for HTML . Here are the methods available: - (NSString *)stringByConvertingHTMLToPlainText; - (NSString *)stringByDecodingHTMLEntities; - (NSString *)stringByEncodingHTMLEntities; - (NSString *

Basically I have a working application that sends an SMS after receiving an SMS. Everything works fine , except when the SMS text to send has "special chars", ie "é,à,í,ç", etc. I've tried many things including charset conversion but I simply can't make it work... the msgText always comes back with charset encoding problems. Here's the part where the message is sent: if (msgText.length() > 160) { ArrayList msgTexts = sm.divideMessage(msgText); sm.sendMultipartTextMessage(PhoneNumber, null, msgTexts, null, null); } else { try { sm.sendTextMessage(PhoneNumber, null, msgText, null, null); } catch

I am using php and I was wondering if there was a predefined way to convert foreign characters to their non-foreign alternatives. Characters such as ê, ë, é all resulting to 'e' . I'm looking for a function that would take a string and return it without the special characters. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Edgar Zagórski After failing to find suitable convertors I created my own collection that suits my needs including my favorite Cyrillic conversion that by default has numerous variations. function transliterateString($txt) { $transliterationTable = array('á' => 'a', 'Á' => 'A', 'à'

What does echo $? mean in shell programming? This is the exit status of the last executed command. For example the command true always returns a status of 0 and false always returns a status of 1 : true echo $? # echoes 0 false echo $? # echoes 1 From the manual: (acessible by calling man bash in your shell) $? Expands to the exit status of the most recently executed foreground pipeline. By convention an exit status of 0 means success, and non-zero return status means failure. Learn more about exit statuses on wikipedia . There are other special variables like this, as you can see on this

What characters are you allowed to use in a subdomain? Example: for someSub.example.com the someSub portion. I know you can use letters, numbers, and hyphens, but what about other characters? Can _ (underscore) be used? William Dwyer Letters (except stressed à), Numbers 0-9 and Hyphen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name excerpt: Valid characters that can be used in a domain name are: a-z 0-9 - but not as a starting or ending character . as a separator for the textual portions of a domain name From http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1035 Various objects and parameters in the DNS have size