character-properties

Is there a simple regular expression to match all unicode quotes? Or does one have to hand-code it like this: quotes = ur"[\"'\u2018\u2019\u201c\u201d]" Thank you for reading. Brian Python doesn't support Unicode properties, therefore you can't use the Pi and Pf properties, so I guess your solution is as good as it gets. You might also want to consider the "false quotation marks" that are sadly being used - the acute and grave accent ( ´ and `` ): \u0060 and \u00B4`. Then there are guillemets ( « » ‹ › ), do you want those, too? Use \u00BB\u203A\u00AB\u2039 for those. Also, your command has a

I have a string from which i want to extract 3 groups: '19 janvier 2012' -> '19', 'janvier', '2012' Month name could contain non ASCII characters, so [A-Za-z] does not work for me: >>> import re >>> re.search(ur'(\d{,2}) ([A-Za-z]+) (\d{4})', u'20 janvier 2012', re.UNICODE).groups() (u'20', u'janvier', u'2012') >>> re.search(ur'(\d{,2}) ([A-Za-z]+) (\d{4})', u'20 février 2012', re.UNICODE).groups() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'groups' >>> I could use \w but it matches digits and underscore: >>> re

There are many questions and answers here on StackOverflow that assume a "letter" can be matched in a regexp by [a-zA-Z] . However with Unicode there are many more characters that most people would regard as a letter (all the Greek letters, Cyrllic .. and many more. Unicode defines many blocks each of which may have "letters". The Java definition defines Posix classes for things like alpha characters, but that is specified to only work with US-ASCII. The predefined character classes define words to consist of [a-zA-Z_0-9] , which also excludes many letters. So how do you properly match against

I feel lost with the Regex Unicode Properties presented by RegexBuddy, I cannot distinguish between any of the Number properties and the Math symbol property only seems to match + but not - , * , / , ^ for instance. Is there any documentation / reference with examples on regular expressions Unicode properties? A list of Unicode properties can be found in http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/PropList.txt . The properties for each character can be found in http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt (1.2 MB). In your case, + (PLUS SIGN) is Sm , - (HYPHEN-MINUS) is Pd , * (ASTERISK) is

I need to replace all special control character in a string in Java. I want to ask the Google maps API v3, and Google doesn't seems to like these characters. Example: http://www.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?sensor=false&address=NEW%20YORK%C2%8F This URL contains this character: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/008f/index.htm So I receive some data, and I need to geocode this data. I know some character would not pass the geocoding, but I don't know the exact list. I was not able to find any documentation about this issue, so I think the list of characters that Google doesn't

How to determine if a character is a Chinese character using ruby？ An interesting article on encodings in Ruby: http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/bytes_and_characters_in_ruby_18 (it's part of a series - check the table of contents at the start of the article also) I haven't used chinese characters before but this seems to be the list supported by unicode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CJK_Unified_Ideographs . Also take note that it's a unified system including Japanese and Korean characters (some characters are shared between them) - not sure if you can distinguish which are