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I'm trying to make a code that replace Arabic text to be supported in non Arabic supported programs in that i will be need to reverse the text after replace but its shows some garbage stuff instead of the wanted result Here Is The Code : <?php $string = "اهلا بك"; echo "$string <br>"; $Reversed = strrev($string); echo "<br><b>After Reverse</b><br><br>"; echo "<br> $Reversed"; ?> Result : اهلا بك After Reverse �٨� �؄ه٧ I need it to be the way it is but reversed ? not GARBAGE !! in order to make that strrev() support UTF-8 you need to use this Function function utf8_strrev($str){ preg_match_all(

given a character like " ✮ " ( \xe2\x9c\xae ), for example, can be others like " Σ ", " д " or " Λ ") I want to find the "actual" length that character takes when printed onscreen for example len("✮") len("\xe2\x9c\xae") both return 3, but it should be 1 You may try like this: unicodedata.normalize('NFC', u'✮') len(u"✮") UTF-8 is an unicode encoding which uses more than one byte for special characters. Check unicodedata.normalize() Simon Richter My answer to a similar question : You are looking for the rendering width from the current output context. For graphical UIs, there is usually a

This question has been asked here Python : How to remove all emojis Without a solution, I have as step towards the solution. But need help finishing it off. I went and got all the emoji hex code points from the emoji site: https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-ordering.txt I then read in the file like so: file = open('emoji-ordering.txt') temp = file.readline() final_list = [] while temp != '': #print(temp) if not temp[0] == '#' : utf_8_values = ((temp.split(';')[0]).rstrip()).split(' ') values = ["u\\"+(word[0]+((8 - len(word[2:]))*'0' + word[2:]).rstrip()) for word in utf_8_values]

I can't write arabic strings in VBA code in excel, it shows as weird characters. Tried it on many machines with excel 2013 or 2010, on windows 8 or windows 7, with or without arabic proofing tools installed. Arabic language is already installed on all machines, system locale is arabic. There's no problem typing arabic characters on excel worksheets or even MS word but not in VBA code. Please help. in VB Editor: - 1- click tools 2- Select Options... 3- click Editor Fofmat 4- Change font to(Courier New (Arabic)) 5- click OK now you can write in both English and Arabic I hope this will solve your

I have been tinkering with the following script: # -*- coding: utf8 -*- import codecs from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup, NavigableString, UnicodeDammit import urllib2,sys import time try: import timeoutsocket # http://www.timo-tasi.org/python/timeoutsocket.py timeoutsocket.setDefaultSocketTimeout(10) except ImportError: pass h=u'\u3000\u3000\u4fe1\u606f\u901a\u4fe1\u6280\u672f' address=urllib2.urlopen('http://stock.eastmoney.com/news/1408,20101022101395594.html').read() soup=BeautifulSoup(address) p=soup.findAll('p') t=p[2].string[:10] with the following output: print t ¡¡¡¡ÐÅϢͨ print