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Message        nicokne          Post subject: Special CharactersPosted: Wed Nov 
21, 2012 8:11 am                         
Joined: Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:26 pm
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Location: argentina                Hi everyone!

I need to enter in a TextField some special characters like ♪ ☼ © Ø and 
so on. but when i write into the TextField i just see a square ¿how can i 
solve this?

Thanks!   
                             Top                harriew          Post subject: 
Re: Special CharactersPosted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 11:18 am                         
Joined: Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:09 pm
Posts: 616
Location: Tennessee, USA                When I need to do this I find the 
Unicode value for the character of interest and use that to assign the 
character to a string. The Unicode value for the eighth note is a hexadecimal 
266A. The following shows the code for the eighth note, sunray, and copyright 
characters that you showed in your posting. I use the Character Viewer on my 
Mac to find the characters and get their Unicode  values to use. The UTF8 
portion of the code just makes sure that they are converted to UTF8 to be 
consistent with the RS default encoding.

EighthNote = Encodings.UTF8.Chr(&h266A)
SunWithRays = Encodings.UTF8.Chr(&h263C)
CopyRight = Encodings.UTF8.Chr(&hA9)

Note one thing, Macs are pretty good at substituting another font if the font 
you are using does not contain the desired character. I do believe on Windows 
or Linux you must be sure that the font you are using contains the characters 
desired.   
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