I've found a answer how to remove diacritic characters on stackoverflow, but could you please tell me if it is possible to change diacritic characters to non-diacritic ones?  Oh.. and I think about .NET (or other if not possible)
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I'm trying to convert some strings that are in French Canadian and basically, I'd like to be able to take out the French accent marks in the letters while keeping the letter. (E.g. convert é to e, so crème brûlée would become creme brulee)  What is the best method for achieving this?
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Is there a published way to take text that may have accent marks and remove the accent marks?  For example:  System.assertEquals('Hello', transform('Ḧéļḻṏ'));   I believe there is an equivalent method in Java, C# and JavaScript. I can't seem to find the Apex equivalent and I'm disturbed that I might have to do it on my own.
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Let's say I open a webpage with some Unicode characters, say, Cyrillic, in the address like this:        When I try to copy it from the address bar somewhere else, it becomes unreadable rubbish:        I guess this is for compatibility. However for readability I want to copy it straight away with proper Unicode characters.  What and how should I tweak to make that possible?  Edit: The answers are good, but they are hacky. Are there any settings in about:config?
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I recently came across  answer on . It appears to be written in a font designed to look like hard-to-read, old fashioned handwriting. As such, to make it easier to read, I copy/pasted it into gedit (a text editor that does not support formatting — like Notepad). To my surprise, the strange formatting stayed. Upon further inspection (i.e., Googling the most strange looking characters, noticing the year appears to be written partially normally) I came to the conclusion that they are a set of strange letter-like characters in Unicode.  My question has two parts:   Am I correct about what these characters are? If so, why does Unicode contain extra characters that appear to serve no purpose other than that of fonts?
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Here's the screenshot of my experience with italic text over Stack Overflow.     Basically it just wraps the word into asterisks and leaves it like this. Here on Meta I do not observe this bug.
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I would like to change the page numbering from the default 1, 2, ... to the corresponding symbols in my native language. I have the fonts and typesetting ready and just want to replace the page numberings. How would I go about it ?
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I was using a Linux console and suddenly the format of the letters changed:    I probably pressed on the wrong keys. Any idea how to fix this?
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What are the valid characters to use in labels? I thought that only alphabetic characters were valid, but I tested ' and ! and they work. What are the restrictions to these names?
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A bit silly, but I can't type this character ಠ, on ubuntu.  Some page say it should be this way  Ctrl+Shift type u0CA0   But it doesnt do anything. Even I find a shortcut for sublime that I didn't know that exist before try this.
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I can't create a post with the .  There are errors for both the Japanese and Chinese characters.  Here is the post in question . It is peculiar that it supports 59 languages besides Japanese and Chinese.
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I've got a problem that occured to me out of nowhere.  Today in the morning, as I logged in to my computer at work I cannot input Polish diacritical signs. For example rAlt + A should give Ą but instead it gives no character. On the other hand : rAlt + rCrtl + A gives the expected Ą sign. Also another weird thing: before the WindowsKey + R shortcut opened the Run command without any lag or nothing. Today it opens the menu at first, after that proceeds to Run command.  I've checked every possible language setting. Everything is fine. Keyboard layout - Polish (Programmer) also is fine. Checked my graphics driver (since they can have some issues with shortcuts) and nothing. The OS is malware free. Any possible issue with shortcuts checked with no result.   My computer: Samsung NP550P7C, Windows 8.1 Enterprise (after every possible update).  I hope there is another way than reinstalling the OS since I have alot of software to be reinstalled with it to enable me to work.
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Is there some easy way to pad Strings in Java?  Seems like something that should be in some StringUtil-like API, but I can't find anything that does this.
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The US International keyboard allows to add  diacritics by means of dead keys. Specifically:    `a maps to à and 'a maps to á.  In X, using the international or the standard US keyboard, I would like instead to set mappings like this:  a` maps to á and a' maps to à.  As you can see, I would like the dead key to be typed after the base letter and also I prefer to swap the acute and grave accent dead keys. (This makes typing much faster and natural for me and, in case the dead key functionality is disabled, words with attached diacritics are more readable).  Can you address me to the proper tools/config files to achieve this? In case it is relevant to the answer, my distro is Arch Linux.
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Do you think it would be worthwhile to provide hints as to what language to use for the syntax highlighting?  Sometimes I find the highlighting on SQL or VB.NET answers is more distracting than helpful; for example:       to pick the two I've been looking at recently.
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After reading  about spacing and punctuation, I was left wondering about an issue that didn't seem to be addressed: using \frenchspacing together with the modified punctuation \@., \@?, etc.  As far as I can tell visually, using \frenchspacing together with these commands works correctly (i.e., it seems like nothing breaks, and the extra space is suppressed as normal), but are there problems that can arise from doing so?   Moreover, when using \frenchspacing, "should" I still use \@. and its friends where it would ordinarily be necessary, in case someone wants to remove \frenchspacing later? Would accommodating (hypothetical) future editors in this way be "standard", "above and beyond the call of duty", or "crazy"?
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Please how can I insert these unicode symbols in the range u2400 to u2421. They are names of control characters.  You can see them here:   I could find the package keystroke which has very nice keys, but that is not what I want.  Thanks!  -- Edited:  Quoting Marco: "The problem is to find a font that contains these characters."
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I have noticed this in hundreds of questions.   Most of the users use invalid lower case letters. "i" instead of "I" and "how to do..." instead of "How to.." Other than that I can see a lot of abbreviated words like "plz", "thx", etc.  However, they are not nice to see on a Q&amp;A site. And these are the things that can be corrected by a bot (or even when submitting the question).  I just wanted to add this as a new idea.