On 22.08.2012 11:52, Antonio Santos wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have some iconic fonts installed in my system and I've been trying
> lately to use them in the statusbar with no success. Some of them use
> the private unicode characters [1] so I would need to be able to use
> unicode characters in my widgets, such as in the following example:
> 
> mywidget.text = "<span font='myfont'>\U023</span>"
> 
> The problem is that what I get in the widget is exactly "U023",
> instead of the corresponding unicode characters. I have tried escaping
> the backslash with another one but then what I get is "\U023"
> 
> Using naughty to display a notification with the same text does show
> the unicode character, by the way, so I know for sure that the font is
> correctly installed and working.
> 
> Can someone help me with this?

Just enter the character directly in your config.

Alternatively, Google[0] said you can use \h0a for hex representation, but for
this you would need the UTF-8 encoding of the unicode code point.

Uli

[0] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lua_Programming/How_to_Lua/escape_sequence
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