[Brass]

I have an NSTableView that needs to display fractions using the Unicode single-character fractions such as "⅓" (instead of "1/3"). This appears to work correctly when the value is entered by the user. However, if I attempt to programatically automate the conversion of "1/3" to "⅓", I just get some other strange symbol displayed in the table instead.

This occurs in other situations as well, not just NSTableView.

How do I get it to use the character I want? I guess that somewhere I need to specify some encoding, but I'm unsure where. The source code file is encoded in Unicode (UTF-8), and that's where the program gets the character from.

The table (cell) appears to handle unicode fine when entered manually by a user.

How do I get it to work programatically?

[Uncle Skeleton]

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=179321

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[Brass]

Originally posted by Uncle Skeleton:
http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=179321

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Thank you that did the trick. In case anyone else looks here for the answer it is this...

The NSString contsant notation @"1/2" is only good for ASCII characters, despite the fact that NSStrings are fine with unicode, etc. The work around is to use something like:

[NSString stringWithCharacters:(unichar *)"\x00\xbd" length:1]

[Wevah]

I think you can encode a 2 byte unicode character directly using \unnnn, in case you don't want to do a \xnn\xnn.