How to type superscript in xcode

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I need to display the following equation in UILabel. But i don't know how to type the superscript text in xCode.

2xˆ3-3xˆ2-36x+2

For reference i use ^ symbol for indicate the superscript.

check this....http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5080175/how-to-create-subscript-characters-thats-not-in-unicode-in-ios — Bhavin Bhadani, Aug 19 '15 at 09:33

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 30 '18 at 14:19

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Pressing Cmd+Ctrl+Space will open a special characters menu. Check if the "Digits — All" category is in the left-hand column. If it isn't, click the gear icon, then select this category — add it to the list.

See screenshot below

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Nice trick....This answer solved another issue I had in the back of my mind related to math symbols without using a special math font.... – eharo2 May 20 '19 at 15:17

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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It can be achieved using NSAttributedString. Following may be of some help:
How to use NSSuperscriptAttributeName for OS X

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 28 '17 at 13:00

For a simple to use Swift solution, you might want to checkout HandyUIKit. After importing it into your project (e.g. via Carthage – see instructions in README) you can do something like this:

import HandyUIKit

let yourFont = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 20, weight: .medium)
"2x^{3}-3x^{2}-36x+2".superscripted(font: yourFont)

The last line will return an NSAttributedString which will look exactly like what you're looking for. Just assign it to a UILabels attributedText property and that's it!

If you're looking for subscripting a text, simply use subscripted(font:) instead. It will recognize structures like CO_{2}. There's also superAndSubscripted(font:) if you want to combine both.

See the docs for more information and additional examples.

How to type superscript in xcode

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