non-ascii-chars

Removing non-ascii characters from any given stringtype in Python

>>> teststring = 'aõ' >>> type(teststring) <type 'str'> >>> teststring 'a\xf5' >>> print teststring aõ >>> teststring.decode("ascii", "ignore") u'a' >>> teststring.decode("ascii", "ignore").encode("ascii") 'a' which is what i really wanted it to store internally as i remove non-ascii characters. Why did the decode("ascii give out a uni...

Delphi - How can i replace \xA0( or non ascii) chars in a string to ' '?

I have an excel file with numerous non-ascii characters which i would like to replace with the space character. This text is to be entered into a MySQL database, and it will not import with these characters in the strings. I get a "HY000 Incorrect string value" when trying to post the row. ...

Reading, Comparing and taking input non ASCII charachter(i.e Bangla and other indic script) array in C

Can I work with Begali charachters(non ASCII) in C? ...

How VARCHAR/CHAR manages to store/render multinational symbols in SQL Server?

I have used to read that varchar (char) is used for storing ASCII characters with 1 bute per character while nvarchar (varchar) uses UNICODE with 2 bytes. But which ASCII? In SSMS 2008 R2 DECLARE @temp VARCHAR(3); --CHAR(3) SET @temp = 'ЮЯç'; --cyryllic + portuguese-specific letters select @temp,datalength(@temp) -- results in --...