Re: how to write programatically greek letters to an NSTextField?

FROM : The Karl Adam
DATE : Wed Dec 22 23:31:31 2004

Evan is correct, and rather than use the hex values, I normally just
use NSString's -stringWithUTF8String: then you can type the string
directly in between the "" and it is correctly handled in your
program.

-Karl

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:09:46 -0600, Evan Schoenberg <evan.<email_removed>> wrote:
> Haven't tried it, but I think this would work:
> [theNSTextField setStringValue:[NSString stringWithUTF8String:"σxx"]];
>
> @"blah" is actually an ASCII string literal IIRC so doesn't support
> full UTF8.  (Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong!)
>
> -Evan
>
>
> On Dec 22, 2004, at 6:17 AM, Nestor Cardozo wrote:
>
> > I am trying to write programatically a combination of greek and latin
> > characters to an NSTextField:
> >
> > [theNSTextField setStringValue:@"σxx"]
> >
> > it looks okay in Xcode. However, when I run the program the character
> > that actually shows up is:
> >
> > æĚxx
> >
> > the greek letter sigma σ has been replaced for æĚ
> >
> > How to write greek characters to an NSTextField?
> >
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