Different UTF-8 character output with chr()

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I set a Textfield text whith this Code:

TextField1.Text = "¶" + "      " + chr(&hc2b6)

The Output of the Textfield is:
Textfield
Why is the Char, set with CHR different?
The UTF-8 coding table say:
UTFTable

How can i add a Unicode Character with hexcode?

2

In the doc they indicate that we can set an enconding like:
CR = Encodings.ASCII.Chr(13)
Set the encoding you need (UTF8 or etc.).

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C2 B6 represents to the bytes used to UTF-8 encode the Unicode code point that represents “¶”. That code point is simply `B6’ and you can represent that in any of these ways:

TextField1.Text = "¶"
TextField1.Text = Chr( &hB6 )
TextField1.Text = &uB6
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Oh, I must have missed that! Thanks for the hint!

5

My mistake! I’m dealing with encoding for the first time. And every beginning is difficult. Thanks!

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One needs to distinguish between the Unicode code point value, which is simply one entry in a long list of such values, and how the character the code point is assigned to is represented on disk. This latter is the encoding and there are several flavours - UTF8 is one. The Wikipedia article is useful here.