Storing special symbols in string (š, č, á, é, etc.).

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1

Hello, I am creating a strategy game where I store cities in a text asset and every value they have is stored there as well as their name. Getting that name out is no problem but the problem comes when I have a city with special symbol - I’m Czech so I’m testing some Czech names and all the special symbols are unknown for the string.
The problem is not in font, because whenever I start the game and then in editor change the value to the one with a special symbol, the game is able to show it to me properly - in other words, the font knows these symbols.
So my question is - how can I store special characters in a string variable so I can properly show the name of the city when the player clicks on it?

3

Your asset is encoded with ANSI, and ANSI doesn’t support special symbols.
You need to save the file with encoding different than ANSI, like for example Unicode

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2

Hiya.

Try putting the special symbols in a char array and pull them out whenever you need it for each name.

public Char[] specialSymbols = {é, á, ê, û};
public string cityName;

public Start ()
{

cityName = "foo" + char[2].ToString() + "bar";

}

You can put the char array in a static class so you can pull it out from anywhere saving you the hassle of copy pasting the array over and over.