special-characters

I wrote the following in the strings.xml file: <string name="game_settings_dragNDropMove_checkBox">Move by Drag&Drop</string> I got the following error: The reference to entity "Drop" must end with the ';' delimiter. How can I write character & in the strings.xml? Encode it: & For special character I normally use the Unicode definition, for the '&' for example: \u0026 if I am correct. Here is a nice reference page: http://jrgraphix.net/research/unicode_blocks.php?block=0 Hai Rom This is a my issues, my solution is as following: Use > for < , < for > , & for & , "'" for ' , &quot for \"\" Even

I have in the database words that include special character (in Spanish mostly, like tildes). In the database everything is saved and shown correctly with PHPmyAdmin, but when I get the data (using PHP) and display it in a browser, I get a weird character, like a "?" with a square... I need a general fix so I don't need to escape each character every time, and also I would be able to insert special Spanish characters from a PHP form into the database... The HTML is correct: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> All tables and databas are set to utf8_spanish The

In this Java source code I have this line: if ((modifiers & ~KeyEvent.SHIFT_MASK) != 0) .... What does the tilde ~ mean? Richard The Tilde ( ~ ) performs a bitwise complement of a numerical value in Java. See: Bitwise complement ( ~ ): inverts ones and zeroes in a number Pascal MARTIN It is the Unary ~ Bitwise complement operator (quoting) : only used with integer values inverts the bits ie a 0-bit becomes 1-bit and vice versa in all cases ~x equals (-x)-1 See also this page on Bitwise operators on wikipedia , which states : The bitwise NOT, or complement, is a unary operation that performs

I have a text file containing unwanted null characters (ASCII NUL, \0 ). When I try to view it in vi I see ^@ symbols, interleaved in normal text. How can I: Identify which lines in the file contain null characters? I have tried grepping for \0 and \x0 , but this did not work. Remove the null characters? Running strings on the file cleaned it up, but I'm just wondering if this is the best way? Pointy I’d use tr : tr < file-with-nulls -d '\000' > file-without-nulls If you are wondering if input redirection in the middle of the command arguments works, it does. Most shells will recognize and