unicode

Code to calculate the unicode character for a fraction in C# .NET

I'm looking for a way in C# .NET to get the Unicode character corresponding to a given fraction. In my code I have the numerator and denominator and I need to work out how to get the corresponding Unicode character from these, which is then displayed in a WinForms combobox. Any ideas? ...

IE: Unicode characters in HTML select and option tags

I need show options in a select with unicode characters. Try this: <select id="ddlNota_CateId"> <option value="1091">&#26641;&#31435;&#20351;&#29992;ICT&#30340;</option> </select> And show unrecognized charcaters (树立使用ICT的). :s Example in http://200.115.217.50/test.html ...

Why is PHP/MySQL inserting my Chinese characters differently?

Gday All, I have a baffling problem whilst trying to insert some chinese characters into my MySQL database from PHP using mysqlnd. I have a form that accepts some details, eg Internal Name, External Name, Shot Name, etc... I enter "语言测试" (Language Testing) into all three fields in the form. I am submitting my information using an inn...

Why did Sun/Oracle choose Unicode 5.1 over Unicode 5.2 in Java 7/JDK7?

According to the JDK 7 feature list Java's Unicode support will be updated (from Unicode 4.0 in Java 6) to Unicode 5.1 although Unicode 5.2 is available since October 2009. What's the reason for that considering that Unicode 5.2 was mostly an update of the Unicode book? EDIT: Java 7's Unicode support will be updated to Unicode 6.0. ...

Testing Python console programs with Unicode strings in NetBeans 6.9

I try to run the following simple code in NetBeans 6.9 s = u"\u00B0 Celsius" print u"{0}".format(s) But I get the following error: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xb0' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) ...

Detecting Unicode text ligatures in Clojure/Java

Ligatures are the Unicode characters which are represented by more than one code points. For example, in Devanagari त्र is a ligature which consists of code points त + ् + र. When seen in simple text file editors like Notepad, त्र is shown as त् + र and is stored as three Unicode characters. However when the same file is opened in Fire...

Emacs, unicode, xterm mouse escape sequences, and wide terminals

Hi all, Short version: When using emacs' xterm-mouse-mode, Somebody (emacs? bash? xterm?) intercepts xterm's control sequences and replaces them with \0. This is a pain on wide monitors because only the first 223 columns have mouse. What is the culprit, and how can I work around it? From what I can tell this has something to do with ...

Non-Latin characters in username for FTP

I tried to find the list of characters allowed in username for FTP but the RFC is not very specific. What ftp servers and clients support user names in Unicode? Special characters? Is there a generally accepted spec that explains the list of characters allowed in FTP usernames? (googling was of no help to me) ...

Is "VARCHAR(255) CHARACTER SET utf8" 255 bytes or 255 characters.

I've declared a field in my INNODB/MySQL table as VARCHAR(255) CHARACTER SET utf8 NOT NULL however when inserting my data is truncated at 255 bytes not characters. This might chop the trailing two bite code point i*emphasized text*n two leaving an invalid character. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong EDIT: A sample session is l...

JSP: execution non-English chars in mysql query

I wrote a JSP code that needs to run some mysql INSERT queries that contains non-English chars (Persian). I run two types of queries first one is static application installation queries and second one is user inputs. After execution of both of queries non-English chars are imported as "?" as I check them in application itself and phpMyAd...

log4cxx Linking error - utf8 flag enabled

Hello, I'm working on Windows XP, VS2005. In addition I'm using log4cxx and it worked perfect for me. One day we decided to add Unicode support (UTF-8, cause we using utf-8 in our code base) to the logger. We found that we should change only two flags to make it work with unicode: LOG4CXX_LOGCHAR_IS_UTF8 1 (instead of 0, in log4cxx.h) ...

Should Unicode be allowed in usernames?

Why do most (all?) websites only support usernames in ASCII? Are there any security considerations if an admin decides to start accepting Unicode usernames? ...

How to normalize CodePage to Unicode Form C when diacritic preceds and accent not combining form

I would like to be able to say "Normalize this string by forcing diacritic accents into their combining form". Details: My code is being developed in C# but I don't believe the issue to be language specific. There are two problems with my data (1) the diacritic is preceding the base character in this data (it needs to follow the base ...

win32 c++ fstream wide argument

See link for what I'm talking about. I want to use point 1 in the link and #define tfopen _wfopen #define _T(s) L##s to do exactly what the link says is possible: std::ifstream file( tfopen("filename.txt", _T("r") ); But gcc (mingw) 4.4 says there's no matching call... Am I doing it wrong or is the info in the link above incorre...

Converting a UNICODE_STRING to ANSI or vice versa in C

Hello, I have a UNICODE_STRING that I would like to compare to a null-terminated ANSI string to check if they are the same. I'm using C. I would like to avoid including winternl.h for RtlInitUnicodeString. What is the preferred method doing this? Or, alternatively, is there any problem with me using MultiByteToWideChar() to conve...

How can I display native accents to languages in console in windows?

print "Español\nPortuguês\nItaliano".encode('utf-8') Errors: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in print "Español\nPortuguês\nItaliano".encode('utf-8') UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf1 in position 4: ordinal not in range(128) I'm trying to make a multilingual console program i...

UTF-8 or UTF-16 or UTF-32 or UCS-2

Hi all I am designing a new CMS but want to design it to fit all my future needs like Multilingual content so i was thinking Unicode (UTF-8) is the best solution But with some search i got this article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb330962%28SQL.90%29.aspx#intlftrql2005_topic2 So i am now confused what to use now UTF-8 ...

Some utf8 chars allowed in python source, some not

I've noticed that I can not use all unicode characters in my python source code. While def 价(何): is perfectly allright (albeit nonsensical [probably?]), def N(N₀, t, λ) -> 'N(t)': this isn't allowed (the subscript zero that is). I also can't use some other characters, most of which I recognise as something other than letters (ma...

JbossTextMessage Unicode convert failed in Linux

Hello, I'm trying to upload a xml (UTF-8) file and post it on a Jboss MQ. When reading the file from the listener UTF-8 characters are not correctly formatted ONLY in the Jboss (jboss-5.1.0.GA-3) instance running on Linux. For an instance: BORÅS is converted to BOR¿S at Linux jboss instance. When I copy and configure the same jboss ...

SQL use Unicode N in a Stored Procedure with variable

I have the following Stored Procedure, Im looking for the correct syntax so I can play the Comments Value in the Comments column with N in front end the value for Unicode I need save Russian Characters Values So at the moment the comments value is being passed as such @comments I want to do N@comments but not working ALTER PROCEDUR...