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Questions tagged [special-characters]

Use for questions concerning characters that either 1) are not individual letters, numbers, or punctuation symbols shown on the keys of your keyboard, or 2) are treated differently from their literal value in a "coding" situation, such as interpretation as wildcard or metacharacters.

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How to type special characters like ↑ in windows?

Is it possible without using tools like word and alike?
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Character Map utility for quick insertion

I've been using ClipX for a while for easier Copy/Pasting, and I realised another thing I was missing: The ability to quickly and easily access a character map for immediate insertion as I type. I know a bunch of the codepoints I frequently use,…
Niet the Dark Absol
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ls, rm, or perform other operations on a directory who's name begins with '$'

I accidentally created a directory who's name begins with the "$" character, and now I can't figure out how to ls its contents or rm -r it altogether. I've tried quoting the name like this ls "$[dir-name]" as well as escaping the special character…
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Typing capital delta using ALT code in Windows

I was trying to type the capital delta using the ALT code given here. But when I type ALT+916, I get "ö" instead of the capital delta. Why is this happening? How may I type the capital delta? Operating system is Windows 10.
Imran
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sed big string with special characters

I have a string that I want to remplace in a script to put the actual path of the file so: my issue is that the string has special characters inside Dir=pwd old=simulationfoam = OpenFOAMReader(registrationName='simulation.foam',…
otaolafr
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Quick access to special characters, ideally from the taskbar (Windows 10)

I have the following problem: I regularly need to use a variety of maybe 10 special characters in emails, text files, and so on. They are not located on my keyboard and I don't want to memorize the keyboard ALT codes for them (sometimes I use them…
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