how to extract characters of a language?

What language features and persuasive devices have been used in the extract and what is the purpose and effect of this? - Do you believe the emotive wods employed would produce the desired emotion in the reader? - Which ones are particularly effective...

Chinese characters are logograms. Does this mean that if I know what the characters represent I can understand a text without knowing how to speak the language? Could Chinese characters be used to spell English words for example?

Hello I just asked a question but it seems that I made a mess of it. Below is another attempt. I am looking for a formula in cell B1 which can extract the value from cell A1 but only upto 25 characters comprising of complete words. For example the...

I'm trying to work out how to use something like grep or sed or awk (or maybe even some Perl) to extract a string of characters which appears in a predictable place in a series of text files. Help/advice/tutorials very welcome! I have a number of text...

Part of my job involves examining war relics. We have a new rifle/rifle strap in our office from WWII, with a 4 Kanji characters painted on with white paint. We do not know if the inscription is authentic or if it was added later. The author had a steady...

I do not understand the above sentence. Note: I'm only talking about numeric entry via scanf. Besides the question of what, generally, does the above sentence mean, what happens if there are no whitespace characters in the format string to be matched...

I know there are a lot of versions like Hiragana and Katakana, but are there more characters than those that people use? I've been poking around and realize that there's probably a million, like the english language. Maybe even more because of the conjugations...

I want to setup a web with auctions, stores and so forth... I've set it  up, and now I'm translating it to Icelandic. I have done that for the   most parts, but I will be working on it with school. I have this problem. 1. In Icelandic we have characters...

This way it would be easier to share ideas and transfer data one way to the other between markets that use primarily Romanized languages like North America and Europe.  Their character written form can still be used for local purposes, while they use...