I want to get the characters of Unicode in C#
e.g
char ch1 = '\u2085';
char ch2 = '\u2086';
char ch3 = '\u2087';
char ch4 = '\u2088';
char ch5 = '\u2089';
but it return boxes instead of symbols (₈ ₇ ₆ ₅)
How to return the symbols?
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3"[The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html)" – Uwe Keim Nov 05 '13 at 05:50
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You can find this post useful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3162116/outputting-a-unicode-character-in-c-sharp – choudhury smrutiranjan parida Nov 05 '13 at 05:54
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And this also helps: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5055659/c-sharp-unicode-string-output – choudhury smrutiranjan parida Nov 05 '13 at 05:55
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Since we are pasting links. Jon Skeet has quite a short but insightful piece on C# handling of unicode http://csharpindepth.com/Articles/General/Unicode.aspx – Nameless One Nov 05 '13 at 05:57
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Those characters are correctly identifying the unicode characters, but whatever medium you're rendering those characters into is not rendering them correctly. I just tried outputting the characters in your code into a LINQPad window, and it comes out as unicode.
char ch1 = '\u2085';
char ch2 = '\u8328';
char ch3 = '\u8327';
char ch4 = '\u8326';
char ch5 = '\u8325';
Console.WriteLine("" + ch1 + ch2 + ch3 + ch4 + ch5);
Output:
₅茨茧茦茥
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2When characters appear as small boxes, it’s usually a font problem: the font used does not contain glyphs for them. [Font support to subscript characters](http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2080/fontsupport.htm) is relatively limited. – Jukka K. Korpela Nov 05 '13 at 06:01