Are these findable? I've turned them myself because I could only find left and right. I want it to be the text of my buttons.
The closest match is probably:
PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL LEFT ANGLE BRACKET (U+FE3F): ︿
PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET (U+FE40): ﹀
Technically, these are punctuation characters from the CJK compatibility block used for vertical writing systems. What you're really looking for is an arrow-like symbol.
Try using a special font, like FontAwesome. Check out chevron-up and chevron-down.
I have to agree with some other responder, though, that SVG or even a sprite image would be better. You can set the text to be the unicode characters and style the element to show the image, so that selecting it and copying would give you the text.
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I have a custom circular button on which I wish to set the lower left pencil unicode as title. I had tried setting the image, but for some reason the image isn't showing up, so I thought of showing the unicode character.
Unicode for lower left pencil is - U+1F589 (Resource - https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f589/index.htm)
Code - customButton.setTitle("\u{1F589}", for: .normal)
Issue - Doesn't work and just shows a question mark on the button.
If I use unicode for lower right pencil, then it works fine.
Code for right pencil - customButton.setTitle("\u{270E}", for: .normal)
Why isn't the code for left pencil working? Am I using the wrong way to set unicode characters for left pencil?
To display a character, it needs to be part of a font, and there is no system font on iOS or Mac that includes this character. In fact, I could only find two fonts on all of fontspace that include it. It is a very rare character.
Since it's been around since 2014 (Unicode 7.0), I doubt it will ever be picked up. It's a kind of a weird character. Neither it nor LOWER RIGHT PENCIL are emoji, so they aren't generally going to display the way you'd want them to, anyway. They're text-only glyphs.
There are a bunch of similar emoji, though:
🖊 U+1F58A LOWER LEFT BALLPOINT PEN
🖋 U+1F58B LOWER LEFT FOUNTAIN PEN
🖌 U+1F58C LOWER LEFT PAINTBRUSH
🖍 U+1F58D LOWER LEFT CRAYON
There is a right facing version of LOWER LEFT FOUNTAIN PEN, U+2711 WHITE NIB (✒️), if you need a matched set. The Swift is "\u{2711}\u{FEOF}".
Your code is fine. You just need to find another character. Lower-right pencil is an old character that has been around for a while judging by its unicode properties (v1.1 versus 7.0). I guess they never thought the need for a lower-left pencil, until now, and it just needs more time before it's (hopefully) more-widely adopted.
https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=270e&B1=Show
Lower-right pencil renders on the official Unicode character property analyzer.
https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=1F589&B1=Show
Lower-left pencil, however, doesn't render.
I want to use the → character with two // strokes through the arrow but cannot find the unicode value for it anywhere. Does this exist in unicode? If not, is there a way to recreate it?
There are six Unicode characters whose name matches a right arrow with a double stroke, making use of the regular expression: /right.*arrow.*double.*stroke/.
Only two characters appear to be relevant candidates:
⇻ U+21FB RIGHTWARDS ARROW WITH DOUBLE VERTICAL STROKE
⭼ U+2B7C RIGHTWARDS TRIANGLE-HEADED ARROW WITH DOUBLE HORIZONTAL STROKE
(* RIGHTWARDS TRIANGLE-HEADED ARROW WITH DOUBLE VERTICAL STROKE)
Notes:
The official Unicode name of U+2B7C was initially wrong, but a corrected name has been added later as an alias.
U+2B7C appears to be quite uncommon, no suitable font was available in the OS used for the screenshot. Still, it is possible to see what it should look like in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows - Range: 2B00–2BFF PDF document:
I was not successful in finding what you were looking for (negative result). U+0219B is a "Rightwards Arrow with Stroke" and U+021FB "Rightwards Arrow with Double Vertical Stroke". If it exist, it would probably be called "Rightwards Arrow with Double Stroke". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_(symbol)
The following Unicode sequences should describe your character, but unfortunately fonts are not helping.
→⃫ : \u2192\u20EB
⟶⃫ : \u27F6\u20EB
They are normal and long arrow, with the combining U+20EB: COMBINING LONG DOUBLE SOLIDUS OVERLAY (long double slash overlay). You may find a technical font which can display both in the expected way.
You may get something acceptable also with:
⎯⎯⎯⃫⟶ \u23AF\u23AF\u23AF\u20EB\u27F6 (using arrow extension line)
⎯⎯⃫⟶ \u23AF\u23AF\u20EB\u27F6
Depending on the environment, one of the two seem much better (on my computers).
So: you can express it (semantically) with Unicode, but standards fonts are not helping us. You should experiment with many symbols/mathematical fonts, to get an acceptable solution.
As alternative, you can build such image easily with SVG (and use a SVG as character image).
In NetLogo 6.1.1, in the link editor, there are four line styles: solid, dotted, dashed, and a more complex dashed pattern.
However, when the visual representation of a link is thick, the spaces between dashes become invisible. It seems that the thickening surrounds each point in every direction, so that in thick lines, the color of the line overlaps the space between dashes.
Is there any way to edit dashes to create more space (or to produce better behavior for thick lines)?
I want the character ⇓ with stroke, just like ⇏ but downwards, but I can't find it. Does it exist?
Edit:
If you don't see the arrows (e.g. you use IE),
I want the character [downwards double arrow] with stroke, just like [rightwards double arrow with stroke] but downwards, but I can't find it. Does it exist?
There is no such character as a precomposed character (i.e., as a single encoded character, a code point assigned to a character), but you can in principle represent it using an arrow character followed by a combining overlay character.
The character “⇏” U+21CF RIGHTWARDS DOUBLE ARROW WITH STROKE has been defined as having the canonical decomposition RIGHTWARDS DOUBLE ARROW (U+21D2) COMBINING LONG SOLIDUS OVERLAY (U+0338). In principle, a character should be expected to be rendered the same way as its canonical decomposition. In practice, things don’t always go that way.
Along the same lines, a downwards double arrow with stroke could be written as the two-character sequence DOWNWARDS DOUBLE ARROW (U+21D3) COMBINING LONG SOLIDUS OVERLAY (U+0338) or, in HTML, as ⇓̸. In practice, few fonts contain these characters, and browsers may fail to implement the combination properly. Moreover, in many fonts, the result is awkward. In Arial Unicode MS and in DejaVu Serif, the result might be acceptable, but only the latter is free (can be legally used as a downloadable font via #font-face). Here’s the combination as rendered by your browser with the SO stylesheets in effect: ⇓̸.
It doesn't seem to exist, according to this page (compared to this).
Sorry if this isn't the right overflow for this question. I need a unicode character that is as long as ⎢ (23A2, LEFT SQUARE BRACKET EXTENSION) but lines up horizontally with ⎮ (23AE, INTEGRAL EXTENSION). Is there such a character?
Take a look at shapecatcher. If you draw a straight line, it shows plenty of different codepoints resembling |.
As already pointed out, exact placement and size may depend on the font, but if you know that the font is going to be a specific one (because you supply it), you could still find the character you're looking for.
It turns out this does depend on the font. If I use DejaVu Sans Mono, INTEGRAL EXTENSION is as long as I want it to be. This font appears to be almost exactly the same as the font I was using, Menlo, except for some small differences with some characters (including this one).