How do I verify that a string is in English?

Assuming that by “English characters” you are simply referring to the 26-character Latin alphabet, this would be an area where I would use regular expressions: ^[a-zA-Z0-9 ]*$ For example: if( Regex.IsMatch(Console.ReadLine(), “^[a-zA-Z0-9]*$”) ) { /* your code */ } The benefit of regular expressions in this case is that all you really care about is … Read more

Using utf-8 characters in a Jinja2 template

TL;DR: Pass Unicode to template.render() Encode the rendered unicode result to a bytestring before writing it to a file This had me puzzled for a while. Because you do index_file.write( template.render(index_variables) ) in one statement, that’s basically just one line where Python is concerned, so the traceback you get is misleading: The exception I got … Read more

Encoding conversion in java

You don’t need a library beyond the standard one – just use Charset. (You can just use the String constructors and getBytes methods, but personally I don’t like just working with the names of character encodings. Too much room for typos.) EDIT: As pointed out in comments, you can still use Charset instances but have … Read more

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