That character is U+2028 Line Separator, which is a kind of newline character. Think of it as the Unicode equivalent of HTML’s <br>. As to why it shows up here: my guess would be that an internal database uses LSEP to not conflict with literal newlines or HTML tags (which might break the database or … Read more
Check if string is nonnegative digit (integer) and alphabet You may use str.isdigit() and str.isalpha() to check whether a given string is a nonnegative integer (0 or greater) and alphabetical character, respectively. Sample Results: # For alphabet >>> ‘A’.isdigit() False >>> ‘A’.isalpha() True # For digit >>> ‘1’.isdigit() True >>> ‘1’.isalpha() False Check for strings … Read more
Yes, ►, but it might not look the same in all browsers.
SGML parsers (or XML parsers in the case of XHTML) can handle — without having to process the DTD (which doesn’t matter to browsers as they just slurp tag soup), while — is easier for humans to read and write in the source code. Personally, I would stick to a literal em-dash and ensure that … Read more
These days, a slightly better approach is to use the stringi package which provides a function for general unicode conversion. This allows you to preserve the original text as much as possible: x <- c(“Ekstr\u00f8m”, “J\u00f6reskog”, “bi\u00dfchen Z\u00fcrcher”) x #> [1] “Ekstrøm” “Jöreskog” “bißchen Zürcher” stringi::stri_trans_general(x, “latin-ascii”) #> [1] “Ekstrom” “Joreskog” “bisschen Zurcher”
edit/update Swift 5.2 or later extension StringProtocol { var asciiValues: [UInt8] { compactMap(\.asciiValue) } } “abc”.asciiValues // [97, 98, 99] In Swift 5 you can use the new character properties isASCII and asciiValue Character(“a”).isASCII // true Character(“a”).asciiValue // 97 Character(“á”).isASCII // false Character(“á”).asciiValue // nil Old answer You can create an extension: Swift 4.2 or … Read more
Unidecode looks like a complete solution. It converts fancy quotes to ascii quotes, accented latin characters to unaccented and even attempts transliteration to deal with characters that don’t have ASCII equivalents. That way your users don’t have to see a bunch of ? when you had to pass their text through a legacy 7-bit ascii … Read more
I just went through the character map to get these. They are all in Calibri. Number Name HTML Code Appearance —— ——————– ——— ———- U+2000 En Quad   “ ” U+2001 Em Quad   “ ” U+2002 En Space   “ ” U+2003 Em Space   “ ” U+2004 Three-Per-Em Space   “ ” U+2005 Four-Per-Em … Read more
How about this example from Unix Tree / Linux Tree: ls -R | grep “:$” | sed -e ‘s/:$//’ -e ‘s/[^-][^\/]*\//–/g’ -e ‘s/^/ /’ -e ‘s/-/”https://stackoverflow.com/”
You are probably looking for ‘chr()’: >>> L = [104, 101, 108, 108, 111, 44, 32, 119, 111, 114, 108, 100] >>> ”.join(chr(i) for i in L) ‘hello, world’