How to change ajax-charset?
You could use: contentType:”application/x-javascript; charset:ISO-8859-1″
special-characters
How to escape dollar sign ($) in a string using perl regex
Try this: my %special_characters; $special_characters{“_”} = “\\_”; $special_characters{“\\\$”} = “\\\$”; $special_characters{“{“} = “\\{“; $special_characters{“}”} = “\\}”; $special_characters{“#”} = “\\#”; $special_characters{“%”} = “\\%”; $special_characters{“&”} = “\\&”; Looks weird, right? Your regex needs to look as follows: s/\$/\$/g In the first part of the regex, “$” needs to be escaped, because it’s a special regex character denoting … Read more
Which are the HTML, and XML, special characters?
First, you’re comparing a HTML 4.01 specification with an HTML 5 one. HTML5 ties more closely in with XML than HTML 4.01 ever does (that’s why we have XHTML), so this answer will stick to HTML 5 and XML. Your quoted references are all consistent on the following points: < should always be represented with … Read more
for name in `ls` and filenames with spaces
Just don’t use command substitution: use for name in *.
How to escape a square bracket for Pattern compilation?
For some reason, the above answer didn’t work for me. For those like me who come after, here is what I found. I was expecting a single backslash to escape the bracket, however, you must use two if you have the pattern stored in a string. The first backslash escapes the second one into the … Read more
Should we HTML-encode special characters before storing them in the database?
Don’t HTML-encode your characters before storage. You should store as pure a form of your data as possible. HTML encoding is needed because you are going to display the data on an HTML page, so do the encoding during the processing of the data to create the page. For example, suppose you decide you’re also … Read more
How to detect line breaks in a text area input?
You can use match on the string containing the line breaks, and the number of elements in that array should correspond to the number of line breaks. enteredText = textareaVariableName.val(); numberOfLineBreaks = (enteredText.match(/\n/g)||[]).length; characterCount = enteredText.length + numberOfLineBreaks; /\n/g is a regular expression meaning ‘look for the character \n (line break), and do it globally … Read more
writing some characters like ‘
Use < for < > for > & for &
How do I add a bullet symbol in TextView?
You have to use the right character encoding to accomplish this effect. You could try with • Update Just to clarify: use `setText(“\u2022 Bullet”);` to add the bullet programmatically. `0x2022 = 8226`
NSURL URLWithString: is null with non-english accented characters
You need to escape the special characters to make it work properly. Something like: [NSURL URLWithString:[googlSearchString stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding]];