Feb 012011
 

Here is my ASCII Code generator that I created: ASCII CODE GENERATOR.

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Some Mathematics characters are part of the Unicode character set, so you need to declare that in the head of your documents:

<meta http-equiv=”content-type” content=”text/html;charset=utf-8″ />

Display Friendly Code Numerical Code Hex Code Description
  &#8722; &#x2212; Minus Sign
+ + &#43; &#x2B; Plus Sign
± &plusmn; &#177; &#xB1; Plus or Minus Sign
× &times; &#215; &#xD7; Multiplication Sign
÷ &divide; &#247; &#xF7; Division Sign
% % &#37; &#x25; Percent Sign
  &#137; &#x2030; Per Million Sign
= = &#61; &#x3D; Equal Sign
  &#8800; &#x2260; Not Equal To Sign
  &#8776; &#x2248; Approximately Equal Sign
  &#8801; &#x2261; Identical To Sign
< &lt; &#60; &#x3C; Less Than Sign
> &gt; &#62; &#x3E; Greater Than Sign
  &#8804; &#x2264; Less Than or Equal To Sign
  &#8805; &#x2265; Greater Than or Equal To Sign
  &#8734; &#x221E; Infinity Sign
  &#8539; &#x215B; One Eighth Fraction
¼ &frac14; &#188; &#xBC; One Quarter Fraction
  &#8540; &#x215C; Three Eighths Fraction
½ &frac12; &#189; &#xBD; One Half Fraction
  &#8541; &#x215D; Five Eighths Fraction
¾ &frac34; &#190; &#xBE; Three Quarters Fraction
  &#8542; &#x215E; Seven Eighths Fraction
  &#8747; &#x222B; Integral Sign
  &#8706; &#x2202; Partial Differential Sign
  &#8710; &#x2206; Increment Sign
  &#8719; &#x220F; N-ary Product Sign
  &#8721; &#x2211; N-ary Sum Sign
  &#8730; &#x221A; Square Root Sign
  &#8735; &#x221F; Right Angle Sign
  &#8745; &#x2229; Intersection Sign
  &#8729; &#x2219; Bullet Operator
ƒ   &#131; &#x83; Function Sign
  &#8260; &#x2044; Fraction Slash
May 172010
 

How to install JDBC driver on Linux

To use MySQL with your java programs, you need to download the MySQL Connector-J from their website.

Download the tar.gz file and place it on a directory that you can access. (Suggested directory is /usr/local). Remeber the name that you used when you downloaded it.

You have access to /usr/local

Downloaded file name is on /usr/local/mysql-jdbc.tar.gz

Installing MySQL Connector-J

To use the Connector-J, you need to unzip and untar it. To do this, you have to enter this command on Linux:

cd /usr/local

tar -zxvf mysql-jdbc.tar.gz

At the end of these commands, the files would be placed in a folder called: mysql-connector-java-version.
Where version is the connector version number.
You can then copy the mysql-connector-java-version-bin.jar file in this directory to the java jre/lib/ext directory. Doing this will allow the java interpreter to find the driver.
Then your JDBC will work fine.

I still could not get my JDBC connector to work. JDBC looks for the mysql-connector-java-x.x.x-bin.jar in jre/lib/ext. I had to find where I installed java which was in (/usr/java/jre1.6.0_20). I copied the .jar file to /usr/java/jre1.6.0_20/lib/ext/) and I still discovered a few problems or things that I was missing:
1. I did not have a $JAVA_HOME variable set
2. I typed “which java” and I discovered that the default java location my system used was (/usr/bin/java). This was not where I installed java.
3. Finally, the directory where I installed java did not have /jre/lib/ext. I only had /usr/java/jre1.6.0_20/lib/ext NOT /usr/java/jre/lib/ext which is what JDBC needed to work correctly.

Problem 1 Solution: To set the global JAVA_HOME variable (Need to be root or have sudo privileges):
From the command line type: echo $JAVA_HOME
You should see the path to your java installation. If you don’t see anything then you don’t have the JAVA_HOME variable set.
To set this up you need to edit or create /etc/profile.d/java.sh and export JAVA_HOME to the path of your java installation. As I stated earlier my java installation path was /usr/java/jre1.6.0_20/. So my /etc/profile.d/java.sh file looks like this:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.6.0_20
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

After you save this file you need to implement the JAVA_HOME variable by typing: source /etc/profile.d/java.sh
Then you need to reload your profile by typing: . ./.bash_profile
Now when you type “echo $JAVA_HOME” you should see /usr/java/jre1.6.0_20.

Problem 2 Solution: This should have been fixed when you sourced /etc/profile.d/java.sh. If you type “which java” you should see /usr/java/jre1.6.0_20/bin/java or the equivalent if your java installation is different from mine.

Problem 3 Solution: Change directory to /usr/java/jre1.6.0_20 and create a symbolic link to jre by typing “ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_20 jre”. This will force the JDBC connector to look in the correct path. If you want to test it type: cd $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext. You should be in /usr/java/jre1.6.0_20/jre/lib/ext. Your .jar files should be in here too.