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Can font-size be set by unicode range?
I'd like to change the size of the symbols but they cannot be wrapped in additional HTML tags. Is there a way to target a unicode range when setting font-size? Such as,
span.name[...unicode range...] ...
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How to search and replace unicode characters with a Word macro?
I am trying to replace several Unicode characters in text strings in Microsoft Word.
The issue is when I try to use these text strings in other applications, the Unicode characters convert to a ...
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How to get the name of characters made up of multiple codepoints with ICU?
I managed to find u_charName() for getting the name of a single character, but what about characters like flag emojis, which are made up of multiple codepoints? Do characters like that even have names?...
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OCR output contains “garbage” characters after special symbols (mojibake / control chars) — how to reliably clean before returning from LLM?
I have an on-prem OCR pipeline that returns extracted text inside a JSON blob. I parse the LLM response and call a local normalizer before returning the text to callers. Example call site:
result = ...
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Getting weird results from java string codepoints on a windows machine [closed]
package edu.practice.zapper;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.lang.ProcessBuilder.Redirect;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Base64;
import java....
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Using XSLT3.0 in Saxon-JS 2, how can one configure the processor so that it accepts codepoints-to-string(8)?
Within Saxon-J, I can set the processor configuration to allow XML1.1 characters, for example by:
processor.getUnderlyingConfiguration().setXMLVersion(XML11);
I'm looking for the equivalent in Saxon-...
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UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters when writing to HTML
I have a pandas DataFrame that I wish to paste into an HTML document. The DataFrame contains Dingbat characters used as symbols to highlight values as good (checkmark), nearly bad (triangle), or bad (...
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Is there an equivalent of ICU4J's PersonNameFormatter in ICU4C?
I'm working on a Qt6/C++20 application that needs to handle localization. So far, we've gotten away with using Qt's build in localization; however, we want to add person names to our UI, with proper ...
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How can I apply tail/tails to a string of text in a Unicode-aware manner?
This "warning sign" character, ⚠️, corresponds to the sequence of codepoints U+26A0 U+FE0F (if I understand correctly, it is ⚠ followed by a variation selector character), so I can render it ...
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Unicode encoding of units of measure
I'm working on a proprietary font that uses custom glyphs for certain units of measure. For example, I want to display pH for acidity as a single glyph, or nm for nanometers, etc. This font is ...
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In VB.Net, why √(x) is refused as function's name but not π(x)?
The following code is refused with error BC30037: invalid character for the √ character:
Public Function √(x As BigDecimal) As BigDecimal
return BigDecimal.SquareRoot(x, BigDecimal.Precision)
End ...
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How to match any amount of Unicode characters (letters, numbers, surrogate pairs) in regex?
How to match any amount of Unicode characters (letters, numbers, surrogate pairs) in regex:
😆
ẘ😆
😆😆
ẘaሴ
abc123
I am looking for an equivalent to /^(\[a-zA-Z0-9\]+$)/i that finds ASCII.
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Why are spaces being converted to slashes when converting a string to an array buffer?
I have the following function in TypeScript which is taking in a string and converting it over to an ArrayBuffer. The returned ArrayBuffer is then being used elsewhere to create a text file for ...
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How can I get Unicode output from robocopy in a PowerShell script?
This is a more specific case of How to set Select-String encoding to UTF-16?
Here's a source code example that demonstrates the problem. The output file is gibberish.
$sourcedir = $env:PUBLIC
$destdir ...
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How to write Unicode string in C?
Here is the link.
I'm trying to write \uxxxx, \Uxxxxxxxx inside the double quoted string:
int main()
{
const char *a1="\u0041";
const char *a2="\U00000041";
return 0;
}
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