Special characters, how to write?

[RedDaemons]

Hello, people.

I am trying to write special characters in the messages I am generating for chat and in the menu buttons.

I found these articles, but it seems is not what I need because I cant believe we have a lot of code to do a simple character replacement.

http://lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=unicode

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Chr

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Ord

I am trying to use special characters, like outline squares, filled squares, stars, outline circles, filled circles, check-out simbols, etc.

I think I have to do any hexadecimal convertion before use the chars as string, but I am bit lost.

Can someone point me a direction to study?

Thank you

 

[ObviousAltIsObvious]

for most uses, you can skip the conversoins, and just paste the special characters you want into the source code, like

string s="(͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)";

 

 

[RedDaemons]

A simple copy n' paste. It works! :-)

Thank you so much.

But, I am thinking if copy n' paste of the unicode simbol will work in any system, any computer, any language.

[Rolig Loon]

Usually true, although it's smart to be aware of when special characters may be used as control characters in some languages/programs.