Questions tagged [special-characters]
For questions related to special characters (usually non-ASCII) that appear, or have been placed, somewhere on the SE network.
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How can I search for special characters? [duplicate]
Situation:
It started out as me trying to search for the literal string C-c in https://vi.stackexchange.com/ but it ended up omitting the - sign and showing results which contained the strings C/C++ ...
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Don't count non-printing characters, HTML comments or other content not displayed toward minimum character requirements
A follow-up to Enforcing a question minimum character length?, and an extension of Spaces getting past minimum character limit.
This post shows that it is possible to circumvent minimum character ...
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What symbols/characters are not allowed in tags?
What symbols/characters are not allowed in tags?
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Search terms with dollar signs ($) are ignored
When searching for "MON$ATTACHMENTS"" it searches for "MONATTACHMENTS".
Likewise, searching for "MON$ATTACHMENTS" still searches for "MONATTACHMENTS".
It seems like it is impossible to search for ...
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Null bytes accepted as part of text (not really)
I think it's OK to post this because it's already clear that null bytes can be entered into posts and comments, and possibly other fields.
If one takes a look at this answer , it's clear that one can ...
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Does the SO search engine require escape characters?
I'm trying to do a search in the SO search engine for C code questions that contain the %*s specificer. The search I'm using is: [c] "%*s", I've also tried it with `s
The problem is that the search ...
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“An error occurred submitting the answer.”
Related: "An error occurred submitting the question."
I’m trying to post an answer to this question and keep getting the error message, “An error occurred submitting the answer.”
Thinking ...
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How to search || and or on StackOverflow?
One of my questions was closed, because of being a duplicate. My question is how can I search for duplicates for my original question. The keywords in my mind are:
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ruby
rails
Putting the ...
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Encoding issue for error message when editing is not possible
When trying to edit a locked post, e.g. https://pt.stackoverflow.com/posts/301/edit or https://es.stackoverflow.com/posts/22393/edit, the error message suffers from encoding issues:
Esta publicação ...
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Allow search to recognize smart quotes the same way as straight quotes
Search has a feature: enclose any specific phrase you're looking for in "quotes", and it will search for that exact phrase.
However, that operator only works with "straight quotes", and not “smart ...
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Unloaded characters in SO blog title
The blog title of this new blog post posted today is broken:
Beware the scammers posing as tech recruiters (Ep. 497)
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Shouldn't all characters be searchable on a programmer's QA site? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I search for a string containing a colon?
Searching for non-word character sequences (which are operators in many languages) feels like it should be a doable thing on ...
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Search doesn't properly recognize smart quotes and reliably return the same results
This is not a duplicate of my prior post Allow search to recognize smart quotes the same way as straight quotes, which was a feature request asking for smart quote support, as it was previously ...
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Usernames with weird unicode characters that are annoying and adversely affect formatting
I just came across this SO user whose username is
Z̷͙̗̻͖̣̹͉̫̬̪̖̤͆ͤ̓ͫͭ̀̐͜͞ͅͅαлγo
which spans more vertical space than "normal" characters when rendered on page, which looks ugly especially ...
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Improvements to search functionality for technical people
As StackOverflow and most of the others in this collection are sites for technical people, we often search for specific technical terms.
As an example, I was searching for a problem with PHP and the /...
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Warning when using φ and ϕ in the same post
The symbols φ and ϕ (both lowercase phi) are swapped in many fonts and this is problematic on Stack Exchange. See here.
Therefore, users should see a warning when they use both symbols in the same ...
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How can I use non-breaking spaces in questions?
I want to use a non-breaking space on Stack Exchange to ensure that an important group of words is kept together on a single line.
I've tried inserting the character space directly as , but it doesn'...
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"Writing Good Titles" forbids the phrase 'question-mark' in titles
I understand why the standalone word 'question' is forbidden in titles; however SE doesn't make an exception for 'question-mark', as in this case, where I was trying to improve the title from:
How to ...
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Umlauts in search?
I tried to find an answer of mine which has a word with an umlaut in its body, it didn't quite work out though.
Search string user:546730 übermensch gives these results:
The search was supposed to ...
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Tag names cannot end with hyphen (-)
According to What symbols/characters are not allowed in tags?, the list of allowed tag characters are [a-z 0-9 + # - .]
Currently, it seems that tags ending in - don't work properly on Stack Exchange. ...
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Reconsider fixing the comment character counter so it doesn't count characters that are stripped
Compare these two images:
My comments appear to be exactly the same as far as the text body goes.
However the first image shows that I have 584 characters left to put in my comment, and yet refuses ...
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Permalink to answer redirects to question if title has changed (or if title holds special characters)
When a title has changed, existing permalinks to answers redirect to the question instead. Like:
/questions/71561/please-fix-this-first/71637#71637
...tries to redirect to a URL with the current ...
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Broken ampersand symbol
It appears in the hint on flair tab in the profile page. Because of the «quality standards» i need to add some dummy text steps to reproduce this bug:
Open your profile
Select the flair tab
Move your ...
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Bug: \u200b and \u200c characters added to code snippet in comment [duplicate]
See this comment in the Stack Exchange sandbox. I quote it here:
Have a look at this JS code: document.body.removeChild(document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('style'))); If you manually ...
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How to use "star" (symbol) in hyperlink
How to encode the star (*) in a hyperlink. For example, this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDA*
points to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDA, not the correct one. How to append the star at the ...
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