Beware the user that has removed all fonts that contain a snowflake... Maybe it would be better to "roll your own".
_murat On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Dave DeLong wrote: > You can also do: > > NSString * snowflake = @"\u2744"; > > Cheers, > > Dave > > On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Stephen Blinkhorn wrote: > >> >> On 24 Nov 2010, at 12:02, Nick Zitzmann wrote: >> >>> >>> On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Stephen Blinkhorn wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> This seems like a lame question to be fair. I would like to be able to >>>> access the snowflake symbol from the 'Zapf Dingbats' font and simply draw >>>> it into a custom control applying attributes like font colour to it. >>>> >>>> Charecter details are: >>>> >>>> Name: 'SNOWFLAKE' >>>> Unicode: 2744 >>>> UTF8: E2 9D 84 >>>> >>>> What's the best way to achieve this in 10.4/10.5 and 10.6 simultaneously? >>> >>> Try something like this: (written in Mail, untested, use at your own risk) >>> >>> unichar snowflake = 0x2744; >>> NSString *snowflakeStr = [NSString stringWithCharacters:&snowflake >>> length:1UL]; >> >> Those are the two lines I needed, thanks Nick. This has nothing to do with >> Christmas either! >> >> Stephen >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) >> >> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >> >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/davedelong%40me.com >> >> This email sent to davedel...@me.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/murat%40pixar.com > > This email sent to mu...@pixar.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
