I believe the correct answer is to use unicode characters of the following (decimal) form 

    &amp;#9658;
    &amp;#767;
    &amp;#2400;

the above become:

&amp;#9658;
&amp;#767;
&amp;#2400;

Try it for yourself on Github and see. You have to paste the raw character strings, not the unicode symbol itself. It&#39;s **not** about what shows up in your editor, it&#39;s what actually displays on github.com.



There&#39;s no special syntax, just use the character directly... ☮.

You can use either decimal or hex code point or HTML entity name (if exists) of a unicode character:
```
&amp;#8364; &amp;#x20AC; &amp;euro;
```
displays as

&amp;#8364; &amp;#x20AC; &amp;euro;

This is not the complete answer that OP was asking for, but in case you want emojis for GitHub purposes there is [a gist here](https://gist.github.com/rxaviers/7360908) outlining how to input them. The basic idea is just that you would input `:smile:` into your markdown and that would produce a smiley face. Other commands are listed in the gist

If your editor saves text files in utf8 encoding with a BOM byte-order-mark, then unicode characters that you cut-and-paste seem to be rendered OK.

If unicode symbols are required in the code block in Github, then instead of using ``` block use `&lt;pre&gt;` block.


Replace

    ```
    Some text: &amp;#x2718;
    Some text: &amp;#x2713;
    ```

With
    
    &lt;pre&gt;
    Some text: &amp;#x2718;
    Some text: &amp;#x2713;
    &lt;/pre

Using visual studio code Ver.1.62.2, `&amp;alpha; &amp;beta; &amp;Alpha; &amp;Beta;` was correctly rendered in markdown preview window.

    import {Component} from &#39;angular2/core&#39;;

    @Component({
        selector: &#39;my-app&#39;,
        template: &#39;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#39;,
        styleUrls: [
    	    &#39;http://example.com/external.css&#39;,
    	    &#39;app/local.css&#39;
        ]
    })
    export class AppComponent {}

The `external.css` does not load.

Is there any way to load the external CSS in an Angular 2 Component?

Load external CSS into component

After creating an Observable like so

    var source = Rx.Observable.create(function(observer) {...});

What is the difference between **subscribe**

    source.subscribe(function(x) {});

and **forEach**

    source.forEach(function(x) {});

What is the difference between Rx.Observable subscribe and forEach

I just made a failed attempt to put unicode in Github markdown (in a README.md file) in my project.

I tried this:

    (U+262E)

but it was not interpreted as unicode. Is there a way to put unicode characters in Github markdown?

Unicode in Github markdown

I just made a failed attempt to put unicode in Github markdown (in a README.md file) in my project.
I tried this:
<pre><code class="hljs language-scss">(U+262E)
</code></pre>
but it was not interpreted as unicode. Is there a way to put unicode characters in Github markdown?

How to delete a never-use-again file and release the storage back to the github lfs quota?

Does deleting the reference point of the file in git history work in this situation?

How to delete a file tracked by git-lfs and release the storage quota?

I know this isn&#39;t a huge deal, but I like my GitHub to be linguistically diversified. I wrote a project in [Swift][1] and when I commit it says it&#39;s in [Objective-C][2].

I think it might be because the Parse frameworks are written in Objective-C and it detects that, but is there a way to change the display language on the main repository page?

  [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_%28Apple_programming_language%29
  [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C





GitHub changes repository to the wrong language

I am trying to use GitHub Desktop (i.e. the GUI application - NOT command line) to go back to a previous commit (on the same branch). Something that I would have thought is a core feature, since it&#39;s the primary reason for using source control in the first place.

I can see that it&#39;s possible to revert a commit, but this is not really what I want as it creates a new commit. I would just simply like to go back with the option of going forward again, in the same way that I can just hop to a different branch.

Is this possible or is it a limitation of github desktop and I need to use the cmd line for that?

Going back to a previous commit in Github Desktop

We want to automatically merge out from master to another long-lived branch whenever any changes are committed to master (at the moment, this is a manual process and people forget)

I appreciate that it may not always be possible, owing to merge conflicts, but if it is possible, we&#39;d like it to happen automatically.

Is this possible?

Can GitHub automatically merge branches?

Is there any way to render LaTex in README.md in a GitHub repository? I&#39;ve googled it and searched on stack overflow but none of the related answers seems feasible.

Latex rendering in README.md on Github

I&#39;m using git 2.5.4 on Mac OS X. 

I have filenames containing `&#233;` and git is displaying it with escapes. Is there a way to make it use unicode and show the character? The terminal can obviously handle it.

    &gt; ls
    S&#233;l

    &gt; git status
    Untracked files:
    (use &quot;git add &lt;file&gt;...&quot; to include in what will be committed)
    ...
	&quot;S\303\251l&quot;

I&#39;d like that file to display as `S&#233;l`, not `S\303\251l`.

git not displaying unicode file names

Pretty much as the title says. Rendering all of the unicode format correctly what with composite characters and characters that affect other characters and ligatures is really hard, I understand that. We have fonts that seem to be designed for maximum Unicode symbol support(Symbola, Code2001, others) and specialized fonts for certain planes or character ranges(BabelStone Han, others). 

I don&#39;t know much about the underlying technical details for fonts. Is there a maximum size? Is it a copyright problem? Is essentially redrawing all ~110,000 extant glyphs too hard? I understand style concerns, but why not fall back to a &#39;default&#39; font that had glyphs for *everything*? They&#39;re on unicode.org, redrawing them all would be pretty hard work but then you&#39;d have a guaranteed fallback font for everything. If you got rights to some pre-existing fonts you could just composite them and that should help a lot. Such a font would be a great help to humanity and I can&#39;t see a good technical reason why it doesn&#39;t exist or at least an open-source effort to create it, so I presume an invisible-to-me reason why it can&#39;t be done.

What is that reason?

Why isn&#39;t there a font that contains all Unicode glyphs?

I&#39;m trying to read a .csv file into Python (Spyder) but I keep getting an error. My code:

	import csv

	data = open(&quot;C:\Users\miche\Documents\school\jaar2\MIK\2.6\vektis_agb_zorgverlener&quot;)
	data = csv.reader(data)  
	print(data)

I get the following error:

&gt; SyntaxError: (unicode error) &#39;unicodeescape&#39; codec can&#39;t decode bytes
&gt; in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape

I have tried to replace the \ with \\ or with / and I&#39;ve tried to put an r before *&quot;C..* but all these things didn&#39;t work.

(unicode error) &#39;unicodeescape&#39; codec can&#39;t decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape

I tried to use UTF-8 and ran into trouble.

I have tried so many things; here are the results I have gotten:

* `????` instead of Asian characters. Even for European text, I got `Se?or` for `Se&#241;or`.
* Strange gibberish (Mojibake?) such as `Se&#195;&#177;or` or `&#230;–&#176;&#230;&#181;&#170;&#230;–&#176;&#233;—&#187;` for `新浪新闻`.
* Black diamonds, such as Se�or.
* Finally, I got into a situation where the data was lost, or at least truncated: `Se` for `Se&#241;or`.
* Even when I got text to _look_ right, it did not _sort_ correctly.

What am I doing wrong? How can I fix the _code_? Can I recover the _data_, if so, how?


Trouble with UTF-8 characters; what I see is not what I stored

I have the following code, it is supposed to cast a `rune` into a `string` and print it. However, I am getting undefined characters when it is printed. I am unable to figure out where the bug is:

    package main
    
    import (
    	&quot;fmt&quot;
    	&quot;strconv&quot;
    	&quot;strings&quot;
    	&quot;text/scanner&quot;
    )
            
    func main() {
    	var b scanner.Scanner
    	const a = `a`
    	b.Init(strings.NewReader(a))
    	c := b.Scan()
    	fmt.Println(strconv.QuoteRune(c))
    }



Golang converting from rune to string

Markdown text is always left-aligned. Is there a way to do right-align and justification in Markdown?

To be precise, I&#39;m using Markdown in [Jupyter Notebook][1] (IPython).

  [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPython#Project_Jupyter


How to right-align and justify-align in Markdown?

I want to use Markdown to store textual information. But quick googling says Markdown does not support color. Also StackOverflow does not support color. Same as in case of GitHub markdown.

Is there any flavor of markdown that allows colored text?

How to apply color in Markdown?

in markdown, `my_stock_index` is my*stock*index. But I want it to show `my_stock_index`. How can do that?

how to show underscores symbol in markdown?

I have a project using [Slate][1], which allows using table markup in the following format.

    Name | Value
    -------|-------------------
    `Value-One` | Long explanation
    `Value-Two` | Long explanation
    `etc` | Long explanation


My problem is that the first column is rendered too narrow, and is wrapping the content (i.e. breaking the code values onto two lines) rather than displaying it on a single line. My preference is that the first column be wide enough to display the name/key fully, and then the second column can take up the rest of the available space.

My question is if it is possible (and therefore, how) to set the column width via markup, or at least add a class to the table via markup (so that I can style a particular table via CSS). Or is there a better approach to this? I&#39;d prefer not to have to write out the table in full HTML (which would be a last resort option).


  [1]: https://github.com/tripit/slate/

Set table column width via Markdown

I know I can use &quot;code&quot; in GitHub Flavored Markdown to highlight a code snippet. But I am not able to display line numbers for a snippet. Is there a way to do so?

    ```javascript
    var s = &quot;JavaScript syntax highlighting&quot;;
    alert(s);
    ```
I want a line number to be put at the beginning of each line, like this:

    1    var s = &quot;JavaScript syntax highlighting&quot;;
    2    alert(s);


How to display line numbers using GitHub Flavored Markdown &quot;code&quot;?

Is there a way to create merged rows in a column of table in markdown files like ReadMe.md files?  
  
Something like this: 
 
[![table][1]][1]


  [1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z4k5w.png

Can I merge table rows in markdown

I am able to draw checkbox in Github README.md lists using

```
- [ ] (for unchecked checkbox)
- [x] (for checked checkbox)
```

But this is not working in table. Does anybody know how to implement checkbox or checkmark in GitHub Markdown table?


How to draw checkbox or tick mark in GitHub Markdown table?

I am trying to make a Markdown admonition box such as note box, warning box for GitHub Gist. I do some search on Google I find Python markdown admonition but these admonitions don&#39;t seem to work on GitHub Gist.

I have tried following [Python warning admonition][1] But this markdown syntax doesn&#39;t work on GitHub Gist. 

    !!! Hello Admonition

I also tried bootstrap boxes like this but it does not have style as expected:

    &lt;div class=&quot;alert alert-danger&quot; role=&quot;alert&quot;&gt;
    	&lt;div class=&quot;row vertical-align&quot;&gt;
    		&lt;div class=&quot;col-xs-1 text-center&quot;&gt;
    			&lt;i class=&quot;fa fa-exclamation-triangle fa-2x&quot;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
    		&lt;/div&gt;
    		&lt;div class=&quot;col-xs-11&quot;&gt;
    				&lt;strong&gt;Error:&lt;/strong&gt; 				  
    		&lt;/div&gt;   
    	&lt;/div&gt; 
    &lt;/div&gt;


Is there any admonition syntax or HTML code method for GitHub Gist?

  [1]: https://python-markdown.github.io/extensions/admonition/

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Unicode in Github markdown

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Load external CSS into component

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