My problem is this: I have a description field in a web form. People are constantly pasting stuff in from Microsoft Word and the like. Curly quotes and trademarks are destroying my world.Does ...

I need to write some tests for a system speaking FIX protocol, written in Java. Standard FIX uses ASCII 0x01 as a delimiter on the wire. I find myself struggling to express those FIX messages with ...

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That tip comes from (starred) commenter Java-Princess, who notes that Windows passwords not only allow ASCII characters that require key combos, but also spaces.