How to "create" unicode characters

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Fellow coders,

I need to display unicode characters using their codes, something like CHR for Ascii but I need it for Unicode.
Any ideas ?

tks

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&u002A - prints a dot.
Search for unicode chars to find the number for what you want.

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&uXXXX will give you a literal of that code. For example, these are identical:

const kA1 = "a"
const kA2 = &u61

You can also use Chr with the decimal or hex values:

s1 = Chr( 97 )
s2 = Chr( &h61 )

All of these represent “a”.

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Thanks Kem, this is what I call “an answer”

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For those of you on a MAC, many (by no mean all) special characters can be entered directly by using the option key

a=
b=?
g=
j=?

etc. (not sure those will show up properly for everyone or not )

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For ones that are accented characters like “a” you can just press & hold the “a” key to get the popup selector
One of many things that made possible through use of the TextInput Canvas that wont work properly any other way

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Windows and Linux too Norman?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_key

OSX only for this

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[quote=179703:@Norman Palardy]For ones that are accented characters like “a” you can just press & hold the “a” key to get the popup selector
One of many things that made possible through use of the TextInput Canvas that wont work properly any other way[/quote]

Seems to work very well here, in Desktop TextFields and TextArea as well. Thank you for mentioning it. I come from the Mac OS 7 KeyCaps era, when that was not available :wink:

Not in Windows because of TypeMatic (autorepeat). But I am sure one could roll one’s own fairly easily.

[quote=179707:@Dave S]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_key

OSX only for this[/quote]

Windows has AltGr that does pretty much the same kind of thing AltGr key - Wikipedia

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No
This is a system offered service

As is using the dictionary
Try selecting then press cmd-ctrl-d in the code editor