I see with some apps like Toodledo they use checkmarks for their revision history. How can you show/use special characters in an App Store product description? Does it allow HTML or do you just have to use ascii character codes?
Any tips/tricks for better presentation of our app's product information?
Thank you.
I think Apple just made the rule stricter on the App Store. I have been using special characters in my metadatas for a very long time but got a bad surprise today when trying to submit a new version:
Got this error message on iTunes Connect:
What's New In This Version must not contain the following characters: ★, ❤
Simply enter the characters using the character table in OS X.
To show it, go to OS X System Preferences -> International and select "Show Input Sources in Menu Bar". You should get a flag symbol next to the clock in the menu bar. Clicking on it results in a menu where you can open the character table, in which you can select and paste pretty much any character.
I am the author of the Toodledo app. Here is how I did it. I found the character I wanted on the internet by searching for "unicode symbols". I found it on wikipedia
I then copy and pasted the checkmark ✓ into my app description. And every time I need to make a new checkmark, I go and copy and paste it again since I don't know how to type it. There are lots of interesting symbols to choose from. I also use a star★
UnicodeChecker is an excellent Mac app that contains a database of over 100,000 characters defined in Unicode. You can search for characters by their assigned English names. For example, search for "check" to find several kinds of checkmark characters. Once found, you can copy a character and paste into your description.
UnicodeChecker is free of cost.
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In my previous IDE which I used for my website's files there was a very useful option to configure key replacements. Particularly I would like to make sure that extended characters which are to be printed on the web page are added in their respective HTML-code and not as UTF-8 characters or so, because only then I'm on the safe side that the display is proper. So, that old IDE used to put ä into the text where I entered "ä", and so on.
Is there a way to do this in Eclipse as well? I found that many things are configurable, but I didn't find anything like this key replacement. It's kind of a makro thing, but not really, and is only needed within the editor.
Thanks for any suggestions/help.
The AnyEdit Tools plug-in can be used to convert special characters and umlauts into HTML entities:
Select the text to convert and hit Ctrl+Alt+E (or right-click and choose Convert > Chars to Html Entities)
I am writing an iOS app and I just want to make sure I call it the appropriate thing. I'm used to clipboard but apparently Apple calls it a pasteboard on iOS. Googling doesn't turn anything specific up.
I see the class is called UIPasteboard but I'm just looking to verify the literature/end user communication uses this term as well.
Yes, UIPasteboard is the clipboard (or the service behind the copy and paste feature). Most users are unlikely to know what either pasteboard or clipboard means. If you're describing the feature you should probably use the simple 'copy & paste' terminology.
I have the same question: which string is preferable to show to the user?
"Copy"
"Copy to Clipboard"
"Copy to Pasteboard"
Looking at the standard built-in apps on iOS 12, it looks like the first form ("Copy") is used almost everywhere.
Doing some more research, I googled for pages containing "pasteboard" on site:help.apple.com, and found pages such as https://help.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/10.7/English.lproj/_1128.html which include text like You can also copy the last spoken phrase to the Clipboard (also called the “Pasteboard”) by pressing VO-Shift-C. But note that this is a page for macOS, not iOS. When I searched for iOS pasteboard site:help.apple.com I got zero results, while searching for iOS clipboard site:help.apple.com got many hits, all of which suggests that Apple doesn't use the term "pasteboard" when addressing users (even though UIPasteboard is the name of the internal API).
Another data point is that the Simulator has a menu command Edit / Automatically Sync Pasteboard although (speculation!) maybe that's meant to be understood by developers not end-users?
I've got a similar problem in that I'm trying to display an error message if the pasteboard contents are "invalid" in the current situation. (In the app, there is a main tweet which has already been loaded in the main part of the window, but I also want to let the user select a second tweet if they've copied a Twitter URL to the pasteboard.) I want to say something like The tweet on the pasteboard could not be downloaded but I assume most users won't know what a "pasteboard" is, and even changing it to The tweet on the clipboard could not be downloaded isn't great IMHO. Removing the on the pasteboard/clipboard phrase is not an option because The tweet could not be downloaded won't work since it sounds like it applies to the main tweet already loaded in the main part of the window, not the tweet on the pasteboard. I could remove the message entirely, but then the user wouldn't know if they successfully copied an invalid link to the pasteboard; they could keep retrying because they think the copy-to-pasteboard failed, not the download-from-twitter failed.
Update 2019-07-20: I wanted to document how Google Chrome does it, because it seems like a good solution. When you tap into the search box to start typing a URL, it provides an extra option immediately below it saying "Link You Copied" followed by the link. I like this because "You Copied" aligns with the action the user took ("Copy") and avoids the whole issue of using "pasteboard" or "clipboard".
from ios development cookbook :
Pasteboards, also known as clipboards on some systems, provide a
central OS feature for sharing data across applications. Users can
copy data to the pasteboard in one application, switch tasks, and then
paste that data into another application. Cut/copy/paste features are
similar to those found in most operating systems. Users can also copy
and paste within a single application, when switching between text
fields or views.
so to answer your question yes, clipboard is called pasteboard in iOS.
Looking at the human interface guidelines, there is a picture of app showing a pop up menu with an option for Copy. So simply say Copy and do not mention pasteboard or clipboard
https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/interaction/3d-touch/
I've tried this: ™, I've tried this: ™ and I've tried this: ™. Each and every time, they'll show up on the preview and on iTunes as the TM sign. But on the iPhone, it shows up in plain text. How do i do it?
Type it in directly instead of as an HTML entity. On a Mac, hit the keys Option+2 (or just copy it: ™).
I don't think you're supposed to be able to include those characters in your app name, but since it isn't working anyway, I suggest you don't.
Have you tried just typing the actual character into the name in iTunes Connect? (™) That might work. ( iTunes Connect: App name with special characters (german 'umlaute') )
I would like to use a special character in the name of my app (é to be precise). When using the name for the Xcode project, strange things happen. So I thought I could name the project something else, without the special character. The real name though should still appear on the iPhone, in iTunes and in the App Store. So my question is: Is it enough to change the Bundle display name property? As far as I know, the App Store name can be set when the app is sent to Apple, is this correct?
I would appreciate some help, Fabian
The Bundle display name is what actually shows up on user's devices.
Yes, it can be CLOSE TO the "official" app name.
It does not have to be absolutely identical, so you don't have to panic about accents, etc.
(If it is very different, Apple will reject it.)
For example, it's normal to have reasonable abbreviations, and there would be no problem if you had for example accents in one and not the other.
I had the same problem because I wanted to add a ™ symbol after my app name. When you're putting in your Application Name in iTunes Connect, it accepts special characters. To do one, with your cursor in the text box on the web page, select Edit -> Special Characters... and select your character.
I am using Crystal Reports 10. The reports are obtaining data from an Oracle 10G database. We have some data in Arabic. When I try to display the Arabic data it is showing as ?.
Any ideas on what I can do to display this correctly?
I've never used crystal reports and my oracle knowledge is limited, however I've done some work in Arabic. Things to look out for.
Does the Database have the arabic locale installed can it display right to left text.
Under windows check the languages settings and check that the option to include support for left to right writing systems is installed.
Check that your database is the international version and not one that only supports the latin character set. It may be that there is a problem converting between ASCII and Unicode.
Arabic Characters are not on the same ASCII code page as the Latin Character set your machine will be used to using, there might be a special version of crystal reports that supports arabic.
Check that the machine you are running crystal reports on has the arabic locale/fonts installed on it.
UPDATE
I've Had a quick look on the internet and you might want to look at this link
Here is a summary:
This issue can be solved when you
create the reports without needing to
write any extra code. I haven't tested
this solution because I don't have any
data to test it against.
First you want to make sure that you
are using a UNICODE font which I'm
sure you are probably already doing.
Then to configure the "Right to Left"
you can right click on any field and
select "Format Text" or "Format
Field". You should see a "Paragraph"
tab. In there you can set the content
to be "Left to Right" or "Right to
Left". The button on the right allows
you to make this setting conditional
on a parameter value or something like
that. I hope this helps.
Right Click on field > Format Object > Paragraph then Reading Order Right to left
Make sure you have Arabic support installed in Windows.
Add the correct LANG and NLS_LANG to your registry (for me it's ARABIC__QATAR.AR8MSWIN1256)
right click on your data base and select properties
then select options then change collation to Arabic_CI_AS