Thanks for answering Uli, If I insert the hex code it just gets escaped. Inserting the character directly did the trick :)
Regards On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Antonio Santos <[email protected]> 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? > > [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_(Unicode) > > Thanks in advance, -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
