Polish is the English name for the language spoken in Poland.
Questions tagged [polish]
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How to compare Unicode strings in Javascript?
When I wrote in JavaScript "Ł" > "Z" it returns true. In Unicode order it should be of course false. How to fix this? My site is using UTF-8.

Tomasz Wysocki
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Removing diacritics in Polish
I'm trying to remove diacritic characters from a pangram in Polish. I'm using code from Michael Kaplan's blog http://www.siao2.com/2007/05/14/2629747.aspx, however, with no success.
Consider following pangram: "Pchnąć w tę łódź jeża lub ośm skrzyń…

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Display (polish) characters properly
I'm reading an xml-file which contains german, french, spanish, english and polish text.
To handle the polish letters (which caused the most trouble) i tried to do it like this:
File file = new File(path);
InputStream is = new…

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JQuery load() and national letters(like ę,ą,ć)
I'm using JQuery load() method to load content to page. The only problem is, when content is loaded via load() method all national(polish) chars are displaying invalid... On both pages loaded and main(in which content is load) coding is set to…

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Can't use Polish language diacritic characters in Ubuntu 18.04
I use Ubuntu 18.04
When I press right Alt + any diacritic letter, be it a, c or s I get nothing. Same goes for using left Alt+ any letter.
My input source is set to Polish.
Why can't I type in Polish?

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Polish search for Sphinx?
I want to implement a search solution for a website written in Django. From the available options (I have researched Solr, Sphinx, Xapian, PostgreSQL/Tsearch3, MySQL) Sphinx looks like the nicest. However, it does not support stemming for Polish,…

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Issue displaying Polish characters using FPDF?
We are having problems trying to get Polish characters to appear correctly on our Invoice which is generated using FPDF. I am unsure if it is the FPDF or the Font we are using that is creating the issue. UTF-8 is set up correctly on the server in…

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Convert Date To String in SSIS with current name of month?
I get the error,
Error converting data type varchar to date.
from this expression
(DT_STR,30,1252)@[User::ToDate]
DO NET Source [40]: An error occurred executing the provided SQL command: "EXEC [dbo.StoredProcedure] @ToDate =…

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No UTF-8 / Polish characters in R console
The Polish characters are not appearing properly in the R console.
> a <- "Wrocław"
> a
[1] "Wroclaw"
This is with the following default locale settings:
> Sys.getlocale()
[1] "LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United…

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Polish chars in std::string
I have a problem. I'm writing an app in Polish (with, of course, polish chars) for Linux and I receive 80 warnings when compiling. These are just "warning: multi-character character constant" and "warning: case label value exceeds maximum value for…

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Reverse Polish Notation on booleans
Heloo. I am trying to implement a java code that will return me true or false depending on my imput.
For example if i have
true AND NOT( false AND true) AND NOT TRUE it should return FALSE
I tried to parse my imput String and to reorder the…

Eduard Cantoriu
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Parsing python date from string - Polish locale
I need to parse polish date from string like this:
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, 'pl_PL.utf8')
print(time.strptime("27 luty 13:00:00", '%d %B %H:%M:%S'))
Actually above works fine, but the polish language dates are not as trivial as english…

Tom Raganowicz
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Django Generated polish plurals form in .po file not working
I have a Django application that has translations for 24 languages. Everything is working fine, except the polish translations are not working!
When I try to activate the polish language django.utils.translation.activate(lang_code) I always get this…

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Polish characters translation errors C/C++
Working on a NON-UNICODE international app(C/C++ on Windows) that can import files with polish characters. Using a Polish Locale as well.
Locale=pl-PL (set in app via "setlocale(LC_ALL, localeSetting)")
LocaleID=1045
CharSet=238
This feature…

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DateUtils.formatDateRange does not respect Locale for Formatter
I am trying to display text for my date using DateUtils.formatDateRange() method with below option:
DateTime time = new DateTime().withYear(year).withMonthOfYear(month).withTimeAtStartOfDay();
Locale locale = new Locale("pl");
Formatter formatter =…

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