#special-characters

Answer: Searching symbols, non-letter characters in Google #programming #answer #fix

Searching symbols, non-letter characters in Google

I’d like to search the internet for a string containing a few symbols, namely dashes, pipes and angle brackets.

I tried searching for them by typing them into Google but it seems to ignore the symbols.

Any advice?

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Fix: Google Docs / Drive: Why are some Greek symbols not properly displayed? #solution #computers #it

Google Docs / Drive: Why are some Greek symbols not properly displayed?

My friend shared with me a Google document. This document includes some Greek symbols like tao, lambda, omega, sigma, etc. But I can’t see these symbols! I also tried to search symbols by the menu Insert -> Special characters and this is what I see:

UPDATE: How can I show these symbols?

Answer [by user39439]: Google Docs /…

Resolved: How to search the internet for terms with special characters #fix #computers #solution

How to search the internet for terms with special characters

As I learnt from this post, Google has no ability to search for special characters. Let’s say I want to search for ss!. Are there any other search engines that can achieve this? Please do not propose any programming code search engines since this is a general search.

Answer [by keheliya]: How to search the internet for terms with…

Answer: Trouble trying to use Windows Search to search for file with a question mark in the content #fix #answer #dev

Trouble trying to use Windows Search to search for file with a question mark in the content

It seems that Windows Search is having trouble when I specify a question mark character as the content that I’m searching for within my files.

I’ve tried:

content:?

content:”?”

content:”\?”

content:\?

content:%3f

content:”%3f”

content:\3f

content:”\3f”

content:000\3F

but each of these yield no results…

Solution: How do I insert foreign characters in Gmail? #dev #it #computers

How do I insert foreign characters in Gmail?

If I want to include a name with a diacritical mark, such as Zoë or François, I either have to open up a character map, or an online table of ASCII codes, to find the characters to cut and paste into my mail.

It would be much easier if there was some sort of drop down box of such characters which I could just grab when I needed them. (FWIW, I mainly…

How to: Producing a specific ASCII character in Ubuntu #development #fix #it

Producing a specific ASCII character in Ubuntu

I’m used to holding the left Alt and entering the ASCII character whenever I’m using an unknown keyboard configuration and want to type a special character.

For example, Alt + 0 + 9 + 2 makes a backslash (\).

That’s on Windows. Is there a way to do this in Ubuntu?

Note: I also want to be able to use this in console mode. That means I don’t want a…

Fix: How can I create a Facebook page for a company who's name less than 5 characters long? #solution #fix #computers

How can I create a Facebook page for a company who’s name less than 5 characters long?

I would like to know the right procedure for a companies that have less that 5 characters to register their page username.

Facebook Pages have this restriction “Usernames must be at least 5 characters long” but there are lots with less chars like https://www.facebook.com/ford or https://www.facebook.com/nba

An…