On 30 March 2012 18:18, Jeff Schriebman <j...@leapfrogproductions.com> wrote: > I need to display the upwards arrow character in a specific position in a > view. > The unicode equivalence is U+2B06 and in UTF-8 it is E2 AC 86. > > I can successfully display it in Xcode on the console using NSLog(@"This is > an up arrow character \u2B06"); > > I have not found a way to use CGContextShowTextAtPoint to easily display such > a character and the examples I have found using CGContextShowGlyphsAtPoint() > seem to require me to use a font containing the upwards arrow glyph. Is there > a generic all inclusive unicode font? What is the right approach to this > issue? Suggestions are appreciated.
I like CoreText's CTFontGetGlyphsForCharacters (10.5) & CTFontDrawGlyphs (10.7!). If you can live with it not working on 10.6 then you're good. RF _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
