How to prevent automatic escaping of special characters in Python [duplicate]

If your winpath is hard-coded, you may want to use r before your string to indicate it is a “raw string”. winpath = r”C:\Users\Administrator\bin” If winpath cannot be hardcoded, you can try to create a new string as: escaped_winpath = “%r” % winpath (which is just repr(winpath), and won’t really help you, as repr(“\bin”) is…) … Read more

Change foreign characters to their roman equivalent

After failing to find suitable convertors I created my own collection that suits my needs including my favorite Cyrillic conversion that by default has numerous variations. function transliterateString($txt) { $transliterationTable = array(‘á’ => ‘a’, ‘Á’ => ‘A’, ‘à’ => ‘a’, ‘À’ => ‘A’, ‘ă’ => ‘a’, ‘Ă’ => ‘A’, ‘â’ => ‘a’, ‘Â’ => ‘A’, … Read more

php mail special characters utf8

Did you try iconv_set_encoding ? This should work : <?php iconv_set_encoding(“internal_encoding”, “UTF-8”); $subject = “Testmail — Special Characters”; $msg = “Hi there,\n\nthis isn’t something easy.\n\nI haven’t thought that it’s that complicated!”; mail(utf8_decode($to), utf8_decode($subject), utf8_decode($msg), utf8_decode($from).”\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n”);?>

How should I escape commas and speech marks in CSV files so they work in Excel?

We eventually found the answer to this. Excel will only respect the escaping of commas and speech marks if the column value is NOT preceded by a space. So generating the file without spaces like this… Reference,Title,Description 1,”My little title”,”My description, which may contain “”speech marks”” and commas.” 2,”My other little title”,”My other description, which … Read more