Hello, I have an anoying problem that is giving me a hard time these days... I would like to develop a few webservices for my own usage and currently i am fighting with my damn french accents to be rendered correctly in my json outputs. Here is my scenario: I retrieve a number of lines from my database that i put in a dict. What i want...
How to know if a string contains accents? ...
I am trying to parse a Rss2.0 feed on Android using a Pull parser. XmlPullParser parser = Xml.newPullParser(); parser.setInput(url.open(), null); The prolog of the feed XML says the encoding is "utf-8". When I open the remote stream and pass this to my Pull Parser, I get invalid token, document not well formed exceptions. When I sa...
Hey, I am trying to implement a function to differentiate between french vowels and consonnants. It should be trivial, let's see what I wrote down : -define(vowels,"aeiouyàâéèêëôù"). is_vowel(Char) -> C = string:to_lower(Char), lists:member(C,?vowels). It's pretty simple, but it behaves incorrectly : 2> char:is_vow...
The German accented Umlaut characters “ö”, “ä” and “ü” are often replaced with non-accented versions when users type, often for convenience when they do not have the correct keyboard. With most accented characters there is a particular non-accented version that most people use. The accented “è”, for instance, is always replaced with a s...
Hello, after querying a mysql db using the code below i have generated an html file: $myFile = "page.htm"; $fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file"); fwrite($fh, $row['text']); fclose($fh); On the msql db the text is encoded using utf8_general_ci. But i need to include it in a php web page as shown below: <?includ...
Hello, I have a question related to Java in my android application. I have a list with some Belgian cities with accentued ( is that the right english word?) characters: (Liège,Quiévrain,Franière, etc.) and I would like to transform these special characters to compare with a list containing the same names in upper case, but without thes...
Hello, I'm working on a small site that I would like to change a little bit so it is more dynamic. The index .html is something like <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> ... </head> <body> <div id="page"> <div id="header"></div> <div id="main"> <div i...
Hi, I have a compare routine ... but I need it to understand that when i search a "e" I also search for "é" or "è". Is there an esay way to do that or do I really need to search and replace every accentued caractere before comparing ? Thanks ...
Is there a better way for getting rid of accents and making those letters regular apart from using String.replaceAll() method and replacing letters one by one? Example: Input: orčpžsíáýd Output: orcpzsiayd It doesn't need to include all letters with accents like the Russian alphabet or the Chinese one. ...
Hi everyone, I'm trying to make a URL-safe version of a string. In my database I have a value medúlla - I want to turn this into medulla. I've found plenty of functions to do this, but when I retrieve the value from the database it comes back as medúlla. I've tried: Setting the column as utf_8 encoding Setting the table as utf_8 ...
Just wonder how to convert a unicode string like u'é' to its unicode character code u'\xe9'? Thank you for your help. ...
Hello, i'm trying to save accented chars (èòàèì) to an Oracle DB in a VARCHAR2 field; i've put <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" value="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body> <?php header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); .... //and here i make the insert into the DB: $str=utf8_encode("JeanPièrre"); // or...
Hello, I am working on a simple search script that looks through two columns of a specific table. Essentially I'm looking for a match between either a company's number or their name. I'm using the LIKE statement in SQL because I am using InnoDB tables (which means no fulltext searches). The problem is that I am working in a bilingual e...
Hi! We wrote a Delphi program that send some informations with CDO. In my Win7 machine (hungarian) the accents are working fine. So if I sent a mail with "ÁÉÍÓÖŐÚÜŰ", I got it in this format. I used iso-8859-2 encoding in the body, and this encode the subject, and the email addresses to (the sender address is contains name). I though...
I did some script in python that connects to GMAIL and print a email text... But, often my emails has words with "accent". And there is my problem... For example a text that I got: "PLANO DE S=C3=9ADE" should be printed as "PLANO DE SAÚDE". How can I turn legible my email text? What can I use to convert theses letters with accent? Tha...
You wrote this code: accentsTidy = function(s){ var r=s.toLowerCase(); r = r.replace(new RegExp("\\s", 'g'),""); r = r.replace(new RegExp("[àáâãäå]", 'g'),"a"); r = r.replace(new RegExp("æ", 'g'),"ae"); r = r.replace(new RegExp("ç", ...
I have a JavaScript regular expression which basically finds two-letter words. The problem seems to be that it interprets accented characters as word boundaries. Indeed, it seems that A word boundary ("\b") is a spot between two characters that has a "\w" on one side of it and a "\W" on the other side of it (in either order), ...
Hey guys. simple question: how to remove accents from a char? Like ã -> a, and é -> e. I asked in another question how to convert utf-8 to ascii but this is unnecessary, since I only need to treat those situations. I tried: char comando; if( comando == 'ç' || comando == 'Ç') { comando = 'c'; return comando; } But ...
Hi all I need to be able to do 'like' queries across several languages, so that a umlaut, a and A are treated the same and so on. I'm on 10gr2 of oracle and I can't alter the session. I've been trying things like nls_upper(col_name,'NLS_SORT=BINARY_AI') like nls_upper('%fur%','NLS_SORT=BINARY_AI') but I'm not having any joy. Whatever...