em dash

[renewedliving]

In vb.net, one can include an em dash (a wide hyphen) using
Dim s as String
s = "Hello " & ChrW(&H2014) & " World"

I have tried the following, but it doesn't work. What does work?
Hex 20 = Decimal 32
Hex 14 = Decimal 20

local
s: STRING
do
create s.make(16)
s.append ("Hello %/32/%/20/ World")

but it doesn't display right on the form.

Thank you,
Brother Bill



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[Emmanuel Stapf [ES]]

Eiffel does not yet support natively Unicode characters in manifest strings even
on .NET. However on .NET you can manipulate the .NET string with Unicode
characters.

So you can rewrite your code as:

local
s: STRING
i: INTEGER
do
create s.make(16)
s.append ("Hello ")
i := 0x2014
s.append_character (i.ascii_char)
s.append (" World")
end

Regards,
Manu

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[Emmanuel Stapf [ES]]

To be correct, you should use `to_character' instead of the obsolete `ascii_char'.

Regards,
Manu

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