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FunctionsContentsFunctionsReferencesAlso seeContentsabbrev(s,n)names, abbreviated to a length ofnchar(n)the character corresponding toASCIIor extendedASCII coden;""ifnis not in the domaincollatorlocale(loc,type)the most closely related locale supported byICUfromlociftypeis1; the actual locale where the collation data comes from iftypeis2collatorversion(loc)the version String of a collator based on localelocindexnot(s1,s2)the position inASCII strings1of the first character ofs1not foundinASCII strings2, or0if all characters ofs1are found ins2plural(n,s)the plural ofsifn6= 1plural(n,s1,s2)the plural ofs1, as modified by or replaced withs2, ifn6= 1real(s)sconverted to numeric ormissingregexm(s,re)performs a match of a regular expression and evaluates to1if regularexpressionreis satisfied by theASCII strings.
Beginning with Stata 14, Stata’s display encoding is UTF-8 on all platforms. The char(128)function is an invalid UTF-8 sequence and thus will display a question mark. There are two Unicode functions corresponding to char(): uchar() and ustrunescape(). You can use uchar(8364) or ustrunescape("\u20AC") to display a Euro sign on all
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