Questions tagged [special-characters]
Use for questions concerning characters that either 1) are not individual letters, numbers, or punctuation symbols shown on the keys of your keyboard, or 2) are treated differently from their literal value in a "coding" situation, such as interpretation as wildcard or metacharacters.
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How to combine ◌̑ and ι in Microsoft Word?
I am trying to replicate a word from a lexicon. It is
But for a 5th char, I did not find the unicode.
Does it even exist?
Or is there a way to combine those two unicode chars from the title in Word?
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Unicode glyphs for wysiwyg ruler bar symbols (margin, left-tab,right-tab, center-tab and decimal-tab)
Various word processors and text layout software have a "ruler bar" to indicate margins, indentation, and tab locations for a block of text. The symbology used in ruler bars is fairly ...
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Is there a trick to add an unix user with '@' inside its login on debian
On Debian, there is not a lot of limitations to add an unix user. Ie: the login may contain dots and uppercase letters.
Is there a trick to add an unix user with an '@' inside its login ? I understand ...
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Active Directory - ß vs. ss
I'm trying to unify the streetaddress attribute of our users. In German, the character ß can also be represented as ss.
Some users have Examplestraße as streetaddress value, while others have ...
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What is the name of `¬` character on the keyboard and what is it primary purpose since I never see it in normal text or programming code? [duplicate]
What is the name of this ¬ character on the keyboard and what is used for?
The duplicate answers don't quite explain its main usage, and why a character such as this takes up space on keyboards with ...
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How to type an approximately equal (≈) sign on Swedish keyboard pipe?
How to type an approximately equal (≈) sign on Swedish keyboard pipe?
Kept getting re-directed to this issue when googling for a solution:
How do I type the pipe symbol on a Swedish keyboard?
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How do I send ALT+F1 through ALT+F7 via ssh?
I'm using the (Open)ssh client in Konsole, and I cannot figure out how to send ALT-Fx keys, so I can switch between terminals on the remote machine. I need it so I can switch the GUI on/off via init 3 ...
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need POSIX solution to remove special invisible characters from file
I have a file that comes to us from a third party (Windows) and is not in our control.
I observed that it has special characters like below:
root@DKERP:~# cat -ev ~/check_disk_space.sh
M-oM-;M-?#!/bin/...
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How to create short cuts for typing special characters in Ubuntu?
I am using the OS Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS and I have an American keyboard. I need to type from time to time Russian special characters (e.g. ё). Is there way/program that allows me to introduce my own ...
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Replace special characters and numbers from columns Notepad++
I need to find/replace all special characters and numbers from 2 columns in Notepad++ with a space. Is there a way to list several special characters and numbers in the "find what" bar? ...
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7-zip unzipping files via command line where the zip contains special characters
7-zip was used in Windows to compress a batch of folders that contained file paths and file names that uses special characters such as € and accented letters.
When the command line prompt is used to ...
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What is this character?
I'm running an Ubuntu machine and RDP'ing into a Windows 10 server. There's a .txt file on the server which when opened in Windows' text editor looks like this:
when I open a terminal and typethe ...
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How do I send multiple Ctrl-C signals without releasing Ctrl key in Windows?
My setup is a Windows 11 workstation running Putty to connect to an embedded device over FTDI USB-serial adapter. For most cases this works flawlessly.
The failing bit is when I need to send multiple ...
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FFmpeg issue with special char "@" in png file name
I just discovered an issue with ffmpeg when trying to create an mp4 video file from multiple png files that contain @ in the file name.
So I'm calling
ffmpeg_exe -y -f concat -i [email protected] -...
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I am using a MacBook Pro and how to type special characters like ~ and ^ in Kali Linux terminal not working
I'm running Kali Linux on my Macbook Pro and it is not recognizing my keyboard. I am unable to type special characters like ~ and ˆ.
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