Questions tagged [special-characters]

If a character has a meaning beyond its literal meaning, a meta-meaning, then we refer to it as a special character.

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Special characters 158 and 159 stopping my functions in terminal

I am having issues with the two special characters 158 (U+009E "Private message") and 159 (U+009F "Application program command"). My issue started with a function in Clisp that I ...
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Using grep to search for line that begins with a variable whose value is a dollar sign

I found a lot of very similar problems, but not exactly this. I have a text file with the following contents (no repeats, fixed 4 characters per line): A1234 G1234 $1234 M1234 I'm trying to use grep ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS language pack installed, BUT inserting specific letters does not work

As you can see in the below image the additional language pack is installed. The switch works, but inserting the Romanian specific letters from the keyboard does not work. I am using the same version ...
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How to make shortcuts for typing special characters?

I am using as OS Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS and I have an American keyboard. From time to time I need to type Russian special characters (e.g. ё). Is there a way/program to create my own custom shortcuts that ...
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How to see the complete 'special symbol set' that apg (Automated Password Generator) is using

I am using apg to generate password suggestions, and am using the -M switch to include special keyboard characters: apg -a 1 -n 1 -m 16 -x 16 -M SNCL where: -a, algorithm - 0 default pronounceable, 1 ...
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Ecryptfs problem with Spanish characters

I'm using Ubuntu 22.04. I'm trying to decrypt a home directory that was encrypted on a previous install. I'm using ecryptfs-recover-private and it's finding the .Private file I need. However, when it ...
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Encryption Password typing issues

I just upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 22.04. Upon rebooting, after upgrade finished, I was asked to enter disk encryption password (not loggin password. I have full disk encyption). My defalt ...
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Can't copy, move, rename files that have special character (single quote) in their file names [duplicate]

I have some files that have the special character ' in their file names. I seem to not able to copy, move, rename those files. For example, when I try to rename grandpa's_pen.mp4 to grandpas_pen.mp4, ...
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Terminal displays empty space after international characters

I use Ubuntu Studio 22.04.1 LTS Since a while, I can see a weird empty space after each time there is an international (or special) character in the screen of the Terminal Panel. Please, see the image....
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Special character password variable from bash to expect block is not working

I have been struggling with this issue for a few days now. I have scoured the internet for a solution and tried many different methods but none seems to be fruitful so far. I am passing a password ...
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I am facing problem of character keys , while I am Logging in and I want to use @ symbol in password its showing " instead

I am using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on Oracle Virtual Box I used my PC QWERTY Keyboard for input & as usual I pressed shift + 2 They keys are working fine after the login window , example @ is implemented ...
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Use `find` for filename with []

Background: I am trying to find music files that are mentioned in an xml file to organize my music playlists. I'm writing a script to pull out the filenames from the xml tag to automatically find the ...
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How do I echo a file path after interpreting characters like dots '.' and tildes '~'?

I want to write a bash script that accepts, as an input argument, a file specification that includes one or more uses of the special characters ., .., and ~. I want my script's output to echo Bash's ...
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"cat ls" messes up my terminal's characters [duplicate]

when I go to my /bin directory and do cat ls it messes up my whole terminal's characters, even my input gets messed up and I have no option but to restart the terminal. I was just watching a toturial ...
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How to use special characters as user input

I want to use user input of special characters in conditional statement. I tried: read -p "press arrow up" foo if [ $foo == "^[[A" ]; then echo yes; fi It did not do what I wanted ...
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Cedilla no longer working with US Intl. keyboard layout

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS with the US Intl. keyboard layout, but when I type ', then c, I'm now getting a ć instead of the regular ç. How can I fix this?
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How do I type asian quotation marks with mozc?

I'm a Japanese learner and I have mozc installed on my PC. I can type hiragana, katakana, kanji and Japanese punctuation (at least 。, 、and ー), but I can't figure out how to type the Asian quotations ...
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Special-Characters not working in LibreOffice impress

I opened a document in LibreOffice (7.2.2.2) Impress but somehow the special characters are replaced with an envelope sign. The button that should link to "insert special character" is grey ...
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Why do backticks work for highlighting code in Discord, but Armenian commas don't?

When I send code in Discord using this: ```py print("hello world!") ``` it appears in a box with code highlighted as you can see in the picture below. However, when I use Unicode U+055d (...
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On screen keyboard: why does it have no special keys like Esc, Ctrl, Alt, Tab or arrow keys?

There's one issue that is bothering me with Ubuntu on my tablet: why does the default on-screen keyboard not have any special function keys like Esc, Ctrl, Alt, Tab or arrow keys? That makes using e.g....
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r��duit xxx file does not exist

If I got files via mail or download files with french characters on my Kubuntu 18.04 and I want to copy or delete or rename this files I got an error: The file or folder /home/rolf/ArtForLand/(r��...
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Problem with wrongly displayed accented letters

I'm using Kubuntu 20.04 and I'm having problems with the display of accented letters and some other special characters. In particular french accented letters are displayed as Cyrillic characters and ...
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How to add special characters in ~/.bashrc file?

I am trying to make a bash alias to grep for Git conflicts within files after a merge occurs. Usually on the command line with bash shell, I run grep -nr '<<<<<<<', where the ...
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Special characters substitution stopped working in Kile (compose key)

This question is a duplicate of this post on TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange, but, since I strongly suspect that my problem is due to a bug in KDE/Kile, I thought it would be appropriate here as well. So ...
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Autocorrect/autoreplace for Linux?

I haven't used it much, but as I understand it macOS has a feature that lets you specify something to autocorrect. (e.g whenever I type << it is replaced with «) Is there a package that I can ...
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How to access Keyboard preferences / activate the Compose key / insert german umlauts in Ubuntu 20.04?

I need to be able to write german umlauts in Ubuntu 20.04 with a US keyboard. Found tons of outdated documentation on it, for example this question, which I couldn't apply to Ubuntu 20.04. Keyboard ...
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How to enter alternative characters from extended keyboard

I have installed Russian(Kazakhstan, with Kazakh) input source. How do I type the alternative(neighbour) character in this layout? Here is the screenshot of layout. By default it types the characters ...
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Tesseract with "fl" and "fi" characters

I started using tesseract yesterday. It worked very well, but apparently my original text (in the scanned image) had characters that combine fi into one, single character and fl into another single ...
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mv: missing destination file operand when special characters are involved [duplicate]

This one's silly. I saved my vim session with :Obsess -S Session.vim instead of :Obsess Session.vim, so now I have a -S/ Session.vim file in my project and can't open it with vim as the following is ...
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gedit showing wrong strange numeric characters after ubuntu upgrade

I was running ubuntu 19.04, then I used the dist upgrade gui to upgrade to 19.10. Then I did the same to upgrade to 20.04, which I'm currently running. I'm don't know if this started happening after ...
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Can't type properly use AltGr after updating to Ubuntu 20.04

Before updating to Ubuntu 20.04 my AltGr key used to work as expected. My Keyboard layout is portuguese (brazil) abnt2. I use AltGr specially to type things like º Now, if I just press AltGr a weird ...
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Combine overline character with number

According to what I've read pressing Ctrl + Shift + u and then enter the Unicode number, here 203E and then entering the character to combine with, i.e. 6 should result in the correct symbol, but I ...
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How to access directory with non-ascii, \n character in dir name

I have some data saved in a directory which has a non-ascii character in the name, how can I access the data within? The directory appears as: w0p6_t[[0.53.5]?[1.71.2]] But escaping the special ...
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How can I type special quote/speech marks such as those used in Icelandic?

When writing in English and we quote some one else we use these "double-quotes" which are available on the keyboard. Some languages require different quoting styles, for example in Icelandic low and ...
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Password with special characters

I accidentally created my password with numlock closed in terminal. Now my password is pagedown, left cursor, right cursor, home, insert, insert (346700) I can't type this in gnome login because ...
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Find and replace folder and file names with Windows incompatible characters

My Ubuntu (18.04) drive is synchronised with a Windows drive. Some of my folder and file names in Ubuntu contains characters not allowed in Windows and this causes issues during sync. I want to find ...
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Special character at the end of commands

Do commands like ls and ps actually end with a special character to indicate termination of response?
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Entering keys doesn't work on 18.04 with gnome-tweaks

I have a Hungarian keyboard, here's the layout. I've just updated to 18.04 (from 16.04) and now I can't enter [AltGr]+[<key>] and [letter] or [AltGr]+[Shift]+[<key>] and [letter] ...
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Analyzing Characters in Ubuntu

I need a tool that can tell me the character encodings of each visible and invisible character from a range of characters I highlight within its editor. For example, a line break is usually \n in ...
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Accent characters on ubuntu 18.04 works in some softwares but not in others

I have recently installed a Ubuntu 18.04 and I use i3wm. My keyboard layout is br abnt2 and it is already configured but I am not been able to use some accented letters in some softwares (textboxes in ...
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Error caused by spacebar character

I am using Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS on a virtual machine (Virtual Box Version 5.2.18 r124319 (Qt5.6.3) ). I am coding in C on Visual Studio Code and every time I type a '=' followed or preceded by a space (...
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GNOME Characters 3.28.2

How can one use the character map application that comes with Ubuntu 18.04 to browse Unicode blocks by script? And how to make it display non-latin characters? I selected "letters" from the left-hand ...
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Changing alt gr key to different key to type special caracters

I need to type Latvian and therefore need to use special characters as ļ, ņ, š and so on. Pressing and holding alt gr while typing is real problematic. Is there a way to assign different key and set ...
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Quick insertion of down quotation marks

Is there an easy way to input these quotation marks on Linux: „“ ? On a Mac, there's a relatively easy compose shortcut, but I couldn't find a shortcut for Linux. There doesn't even seem to be a ...
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Keyboard shortcuts (including the control key) returns caret (^) plus the capitalized input character

I'm sshing from my Mac to an Ubuntu machine, but for some reason the key bindings do not work properly. For example when I try to run the tmux shortcut CTRL+b it returns ^B. The closest questions I ...
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Gnome-terminal and Xfce4-terminal with ISO-encoding needs special-character keys to be pressed twice

In a gnome-terminal as well as in a xfce4-terminal, when I change its character-encoding from standard UTF-8 (with 2 bytes for special-characters) to ISO-Latin 8859-15 (always 1 byte), the following ...
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Custom Keyboard Variant (for Transliteration of Arabic) not working

I tried setting up a custom keyboard layout in Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS for being able to write Arabic transliteration for scientific purposes (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Arabic ; ...
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Special characters do not work after changing the keyboard layout in 18.04

I changed the keyboard layout with Alt+Shift. If I release Alt after the language change, but do not release the Shift, then special characters do not work. I need to release and press the Shift again....
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Can I display graphic characters in a terminal? [duplicate]

I saw a couple screenshots showing some characters displayed as graphics, like this: While in my terminal I get this: How can I configure my terminal to display those images???
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How to make the ^ button stop raising things

I don't know if this is an Ubuntu problem but it doesn't do this when I boot into windows with the same computer. What happens is that when I press the ^ key, the next character is raised half way ...
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