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RSS characterCharacter Mode Development Using Designer & Developer/2000
White Paper Taking the character mode development path should be avoided whenever possible. The simulated GUI objects in character mode will be less than graceful to work with and the functionality will likely be less productive than simple block mode style... [24 Feb 2004]
Character Based I/O Using Channels
White Paper How then can a person use the Channels API to perform I/O operations on Character based data? The Channels API is part of the new I/O package introduced in Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) version 1.4. It gives a lot of new functions and new... [27 Sep 2006]
Unicode Explained: Character Sets and Encodings
White Paper The world runs on a wide variety of character sets. This paper also discusses practical use of the character sets in different contexts, such as email, Internet discussion forums, and document interchange. [24 Oct 2007]
XML Hacks: Use Character and Entity References
White Paper In XML, character and entity references are formed by surrounding a numerical value or a name with & and ; - for example, © is a decimal character reference and © is an entity reference. Onecan use character references instead. [10 Oct 2007]
Choice and Identification of XML Character Encodings
White Paper When text is stored, transferred or processed, it is essential that the character encoding be known. Thus, this paper explains best practices for applying character encodings to XML. This principle also applies to XML, because XML is text based. [13 Oct 2006]
An Introduction to SAS Character Functions (Including Some New SAS9 Functions)
White Paper SAS software is especially rich in its assortment of functions that deal with character data. With over 30 new character functions in Version 9, the power of SAS to manipulate character data is even more impressive. [03 May 2007]
An Introduction to SAS Character Functions
White Paper SAS software is especially rich in its assortment of functions that deal with character data. With over 30 new character functions in SAS 9, the power of SAS to manipulate character data is even more impressive. [02 Jun 2007]
Creating Order Out of Character Chaos: Collation Capabilities of the SAS System
White Paper Traditionally, data is ordered to facilitate further processing or to enable to quickly find information in a report or other form of data presentation. The SAS System's primary means of achieving an alternative collating sequence has been to... [02 Jun 2007]
Unicode Data: Not Just a Character Issue
White Paper In this two page brief, learn why a fully functional Unicode implementation is the natural choice for global companies, for today and for the future. In business across borders, particularly in Asia/Pacific and EMEA, the ability to understand data... [19 Jul 2003]
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
White Paper OCR technology has vastly improved over the last several years. While OCR once required very clean documents in pristine condition or specially-designed forms to achieve reasonable accuracy rates, it is now possible to do quite well with... [01 Mar 2004]
Insert a Symbol or Special Character
White Paper The user can use the Symbol dialog box to insert symbols, such as ¼ and, or special characters, such as an em dash (-) or ellipsis (&) that are not on the keyboard, as well as Unicode characters. The types of symbols and characters that one can... [16 Apr 2008]
Follow best practice by validating data with PHP's character type functions
White Paper This document outlines the more useful functions available in the PHP ctype extension, with explanations and usage examples. Allowing a user to enter information into a form is one of the most common features of a Web site or an application. [19 May 2006]
International String Class
White Paper In the current world business environment handling different languages and character sets is an everyday problem. Handling multiple languages and character sets has become the problem too. While there are some problems with multi-language TMRs... [03 Jul 2008]
How to Handle CDATA Sections in XML Files Using the Java Platform APIs for XML Parsing (JAXP) Web ARchive (WAR) File
White Paper XML files often contain character data that an enclosing application requires to extract as presented - for example, input data for a subroutine or XML markup to be displayed in a browser. Any parser parsing the XML file should not interpret this... [27 Sep 2006]
Dodgy characters create phishing flaw in browsers
News A security weakness in a standard for handling special character sets in domain names could let an attacker spoof websites on non-Microsoft browsers, a researcher has warned. There are now many ways to display any domain name on a browser, as there... [08 Feb 2005]
