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Hi,

Is there an escape sequence to place special characters in a text field? Like \33?176 to place the degree character (Chr(176)). Thanks.

NathanH

For latin 1 (iso ). \xxx where the decimal point is
I.e \176. In your case

NathanH wrote: ↑Thu May 11, 2023 6:36 pm Is there an escape sequence to place special characters in a text field? Like \33?176 to place the degree character (Chr(176)). Thanks.

I don't see why this should be necessary. MUI Royale supports UTF-8 so you can just use the UTF-8 codepoint for the degree character instead of escape sequences or is there any reason why you can't use UTF-8?

Hi,

Yes, I can set it in code after the object is created. I was just wondering whether MUI had the ability to do it at the time of object creation. I guess not. Thanks!

NathanH

You can do it at object creation time. You just need to set the character encoding of the XML file to UTF-8, i.e. something like:
And of course you need to use a text editor capable of saving UTF-8 then. Then these characters should work just fine.