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I have been trying to put a Unicode character into a field. The character in this case is the Smiley Face, 9066, 0x236A. I have set the field to Arial because that character is in the font file on the system. I have tried all kinds of permutations of useUnicode, uniDecode, uniEncode, the unicodeText of, binaryEncode, put unicode text, "Unicode" as the language selector, etc, etc. and I can't get the smiley face to appear in the field.

Thanks,
Walt

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Thanks. What I was trying to make was a font explorer to look at all available Unicode code pages, so I guess that's a no-go for the time being.

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You can do this is LiveCode < 7:

[code]
on mouseUp
set the useUnicode to true
set the unicodeText of Field "Smiley" to numToChar(55357) & numToChar(56836)
end mouseUp
[/code]

It doesn't display a smiley as it seems non of the fonts supplied with LiveCode include the colour emoticons. (I know the field contains the correct character, when I paste the field contents into a Cocoa App the smiley is displayed>)

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Thanks Hermann, great info!
Walt