non-ascii-characters

I have some texts in French (containing accented characters such as "é"), stored in a MySQL table whose collation is utf8_unicode_ci (both the table and the columns), that I want to output on an HTML5 page. The HTML page charset is UTF-8 (< meta charset="utf-8" />) and the PHP files themselves are encoded as "UTF-8 without BOM" (I use Notepad++ on Windows). I use PHP5 to request the database and generate the HTML. However, on the output page, the special characters (such as "é") appear garbled and are replaced by "�". When I browse the database (via phpMyAdmin) those same accented characters

I'm trying to pass big strings of random html through regular expressions and my Python 2.6 script is choking on this: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character I traced it back to a trademark superscript on the end of this word: Protection™ -- and I expect to encounter others like it in the future. Is there a module to process non-ascii characters? or, what is the best way to handle/escape non-ascii stuff in python? Thanks! Full error: E ====================================================================== ERROR: test_untitled (__main__.Untitled) ------------------------------

I get user input including non-ASCII characters and non-printable characters, such as \xc2d \xa0 \xe7 \xc3\ufffdd \xc3\ufffdd \xc2\xa0 \xc3\xa7 \xa0\xa0 for example: email : abc@gmail.com\xa0\xa0 street : 123 Main St.\xc2\xa0 desired output: email : abc@gmail.com street : 123 Main St. What is the best way to removing them using Java? I tried the following, but doesn't seem to work public static void main(String args[]) throws UnsupportedEncodingException { String s = "abc@gmail\\xe9.com"; String email = "abc@gmail.com\\xa0\\xa0"; System.out.println(s.replaceAll("\\P{Print}", "")); System.out

I am trying to import a CSV encoded as OEM-866 (Cyrillic charset) into R on Windows. I also have a copy that has been converted into UTF-8 w/o BOM. Both of these files are readable by all other applications on my system, once the encoding is specified. Furthermore, on Linux, R can read these particular files with the specified encodings just fine. I can also read the CSV on Windows IF I do not specify the "fileEncoding" parameter, but this results in unreadable text. When I specify the file encoding on Windows, I always get the following errors, for both the OEM and the Unicode file: Original

I need to match a word like 'César' for a regex like this /^cesar/i . Is there an option like /i to configure the regex so it ignores the acute accents?. Or the only solution is to use a regex like this /^césar/i . The standard ecmascript regex isn't ready for unicode (see http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/javascript-regex-and-unicode ). So you have to use an external regex library. I used this one (with the unicode plugin) in the past : http://xregexp.com/ In your case, you may have to escape the char é as \u00E9 and defining a range englobing e, é, ê, etc. EDIT : I just saw the comment