Questions tagged [unicode]
This tag is for questions related to Unicode support across the Stack Exchange sites.
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My code with remarks in Traditional Chinese characters is taken as spam [duplicate]
If I embed the following code with Chinese characters as remarks, the post is taken as spam, I need to remove all the Chinese characters to pass it. Please elaborate on this and advise, thanks.
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Unicode combining character not combining correctly across multiple browsers on macOS
The Russian language sometimes uses stress marks above its vowels. These stress marks should appear over the centre of a letter they are marking.
When I type a Russian character with a stress mark, ...
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Tags with certain special characters don't display correctly in search results
On Spanish Language Stack Exchange we have an [españa] tag. It is correctly displayed in the list of questions tagged [españa]:
but not when searching for keywords, where it shows as [espa#a]:
The ...
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Why do I have numbers in my username when I logged in to SEDE?
Today I logged in at https://data.stackexchange.com/ using my Stack Overflow account. I got surprised when I found numbers in my username in the top bar.
My username is Cédric, but when I logged in, ...
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The title of the blog post "The many strengths of neurodivergence" has a junk object 
In the recent blog post The many strengths of neurodivergence, the title has a junk object.
Screenshot from blog post:
Screenshot from Stack Overflow sidebar
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Five nines, four , one bugged blog post
One picture worth 1000 words:
The title of this blog post has four  (object replacement) characters injected to it, which doesn't look good. It affects the blog title itself, the link to the blog, ...
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Under what conditions are 漢字 blocked?
I was surprised when I saw the question Chinese text isn't working on Stack Overflow. I've seen questions and answers with Chinese characters all over Stack Exchange (Skeptics, Islam, Politics, ...
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Chinese text isn't working on Stack Overflow [duplicate]
When trying to post a Chinese string as part of the code in the question, Given an offset dictionary and a string, create the BIO tags
SO is throwing the error:
Body cannot contain "".
This ...
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How can I get Devanagari characters in the display name?
When I opened my account here, I used "Niranjan" as my display name. Now I want to change it and have Devanagari characters in it, but the site doesn't allow me to do so. It says the ...
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At least one diacritic displays correctly in the editor preview, but it doesn't in the rendered post in Firefox
I was just mentioning in another post that typesetters and typographers have been dealing with diacritics for a long time and it isn't hard to get to them. I was delighted to discover that my example, ...
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Vote count minus signs not readable in Segoe UI
The recent UI update which changed Stack Overflow's fonts to system defaults makes negative vote counts very hard to read on Microsoft Windows (in its Segoe UI font):
How could Microsoft chose such a ...
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Search for diamond (♦) symbol doesn't work [duplicate]
Just tried to search for the diamond symbol (♦) and got no results.
It seems that searching for any single symbol is not implemented. For instance:
Search for point
Search for comma
Even more, ...
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The tooltip of the Bûche de Noël hat shows “�” characters [closed]
The tooltip for Bûche de Noël in the Winter Bash modal has an encoding issue: accented characters are shown as �.
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URL preview doesn't match what's rendered
In this question, this url -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%ABlaka%E1%B9%87%E1%B9%ADha_Dh%C4%81ra%E1%B9%87%C4%AB -- looks like this in the preview ...
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Position of numbers change when typing after ࠀ
It's impossible to write a number directly after the symbol ࠀ in any Stack Exchange site. Whenever I write ࠀ and suffix it with numbers, the numbers are somehow inserted BEFORE the symbol while ...
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