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@ivandrofly
ivandrofly / Unicode table
Created May 4, 2014 02:20
Unicode table - List of most common Unicode characters *
Unicode table - List of most common Unicode characters *
* This summary list contains about 2000 characters for most common ocidental/latin languages and most printable symbols but not chinese, japanese, arab, archaic and some unprintable.
Contains character codes in HEX (hexadecimal), decimal number, name/description and corresponding printable symbol.
What is Unicode?
Unicode is a standard created to define letters of all languages ​​and characters such as punctuation and technical symbols. Today, UNICODE (UTF-8) is the most used character set encoding (used by almost 70% of websites, in 2013). The second most used character set is ISO-8859-1 (about 20% of websites), but this old encoding format is being replaced by Unicode.
How to identify the Unicode number for a character?
Type or paste a character:
@Bouke
Bouke / gist:11261620
Last active March 4, 2025 11:36
Multiple Python installations on OS X

Previous versions used homebrew to install the various versions. As suggested in the comments, it's better to use pyenv instead. If you are looking for the previous version of this document, see the revision history.

$ brew update
$ brew install pyenv
$ pyenv install 3.5.0
$ pyenv install 3.4.3
$ pyenv install 3.3.6
$ pyenv install 3.2.6
$ pyenv install 2.7.10

$ pyenv install 2.6.9

@danharper
danharper / background.js
Last active April 29, 2025 04:09
Bare minimum Chrome extension to inject a JS file into the given page when you click on the browser action icon. The script then inserts a new div into the DOM.
// this is the background code...
// listen for our browerAction to be clicked
chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function (tab) {
// for the current tab, inject the "inject.js" file & execute it
chrome.tabs.executeScript(tab.ib, {
file: 'inject.js'
});
});
@meskarune
meskarune / tumblr.html
Created December 31, 2013 22:29
optica tumblr theme
<!DOCTYPE html>
<!--[if lt IE 7]><html class="lt-ie10 lt-ie9 lt-ie8 lt-ie7"><![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7]><html class="lt-ie10 lt-ie9 lt-ie8"><![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8]><html class="lt-ie10 lt-ie9"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 9]><html class="lt-ie10"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if gt IE 9]><!--> <html> <!--<![endif]-->
<head>
{MobileAppHeaders}
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>{Title}{block:SearchPage} ({lang:Search results for SearchQuery}){/block:SearchPage}{block:PermalinkPage}{block:PostSummary} — {PostSummary}{/block:PostSummary}{/block:PermalinkPage}</title>
FILE SPACING:
# double space a file
sed G
# double space a file which already has blank lines in it. Output file
# should contain no more than one blank line between lines of text.
sed '/^$/d;G'
@martinburch
martinburch / csvpys-one-liners
Last active February 9, 2024 21:12
One liners: commands to clean up your data using csvkit with csvpys on a Mac. ("So your data doesn't get the last laugh!")
#!/bin/bash
# Install csvkit with csvpys
# (csvpys hasn't been pulled back into the main csvkit repo that you can pip install)
git clone https://github.com/cypreess/csvkit.git
cd csvkit
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install
cd ~
@hfossli
hfossli / ffmpeg_sox_reverse.sh
Last active May 12, 2022 07:32
A bash script for reversing videos using ffmpeg and sox.
#!/bin/bash
# Created by Håvard Fossli <[email protected]> in 2013
# This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
# For more information, please refer to <http://unlicense.org/>
#
# Description
# A bash script for reversing videos using ffmpeg and sox.
#
# Keywords
@tedmiston
tedmiston / nodejs-tcp-example.js
Last active April 1, 2025 08:06
Node.js TCP client and server example
/*
In the node.js intro tutorial (http://nodejs.org/), they show a basic tcp
server, but for some reason omit a client connecting to it. I added an
example at the bottom.
Save the following server in example.js:
*/
var net = require('net');
@chuckreynolds
chuckreynolds / wp-fix-curly-quotes.sql
Created February 28, 2013 09:36
SQL Statement Replace Smart Curly Quotes with Regular Quotes in WordPress. I was migrating an old wp site with a ton of content I noticed a lot of curly quotes / smart quotes and the curly single quotes. My OCD hates that and it's not proper and looks bad to bots so I wanted to batch change them all to regular ascii quotes. This statement handle…
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(replace(replace(post_content, '“', '"'), '”', '"'), '’', '''');
@MestreLion
MestreLion / GitRepoUpdateTimestamp.sh
Created November 8, 2012 07:07 — forked from jeffery/GitRepoUpdateTimestamp.sh
Update Timestamp of files in Checked-out Git Repository
#!/bin/bash -e
####
# Helper script to update the Last modified timestamp of files in a Git SCM
# Projects working Copy
#
# When you clone a Git repository, it sets the timestamp of all the files to the
# time when you cloned the repository.
#
# This becomes a problem when you want the cloned repository, which is part of a
# Web application have a proper cacheing mechanism so that it can re-cache files