Is there any way to display unicode characters?

Questions & Answers
1

In C#, there are Unicode escape characters but when I pass them to a button, for example, the result is blank. How is this done?

2

I figured it out! Note the single quotes are required…

            char upArrow = '\u25B2';
            GUILayout.Button(upArrow.ToString());

It seems to render the Unicode character slightly off to the right though.

Here is a nice listing of available characters: Unicode 15.0 Character Code Charts

3

If you want to use the inspector to set unicode characters (for example if you wanted to use font-awesome and actually see the icons when the game isn’t running), you follow these steps:

  1. Go to this website and search for the character code you want.
  2. Copy and paste the character from the webpage into the unity inspector.

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4

These can also be used in the console, but as @luislodosm points out characters above \uFFFF are not supported:

Debug.Log ( "\u2665".ToString () + " Text after symbol");