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How many bytes does one Unicode character take?

I am a bit confused about encodings. As far as I know old ASCII characters took one byte per character. How many bytes ...

May 19, 2022
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How to get string objects instead of Unicode from JSON?

I’m using Python 2 to parse JSON from ASCII encoded text files. When loading these files with either json or simplejson, all my ...

May 17, 2022
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Replace non-ASCII characters with a single space

I need to replace all non-ASCII (\x00-\x7F) characters with a space. I’m surprised that this is not dead-easy in Python, unless I’m missing ...

May 17, 2022
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How do I check if a string is unicode or ascii?

What do I have to do in Python to figure out which encoding a string has? 12 Answers 12

May 17, 2022
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SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character ‘\xa3’ in file when function returns ‘£’

Say I have a function: def NewFunction(): return '£' I want to print some stuff with a pound sign in front of it ...

May 16, 2022
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How to remove \xa0 from string in Python?

I am currently using Beautiful Soup to parse an HTML file and calling get_text(), but it seems like I’m being left with a ...

May 15, 2022
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How to use unicode characters in Windows command line?

We have a project in Team Foundation Server (TFS) that has a non-English character (š) in it. When trying to script a few ...

May 13, 2022
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Representing Directory & File Structure in Markdown Syntax [closed]

Closed. This question does not meet Stack Overflow guidelines. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question ...

May 11, 2022
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Why does 2+ 40 equal 42?

I was baffled when a colleague showed me this line of JavaScript alerting 42. alert(2+ 40); It quickly turns out that what looks like ...

May 11, 2022
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Placing Unicode character in CSS content value [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: Adding HTML entities using CSS content (9 answers) Closed 6 years ago. I have a problem. I ...

May 10, 2022
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