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CW6er
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June 29, 2016
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What is the Acrobat escape character?

  • June 29, 2016
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What is the escape character that allows the next set of characters to be handled as Ascii code in a text input field on an acrobat form?

Chris

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try67
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try67Community Expert
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June 29, 2016

Not ASCII, but unicode can be specified like this: \u0000

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CW6erAuthor
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July 5, 2016

Thanks for the reply.

but when I enter the Unicode \u008E into a form field as a default value, it gets encoded as the literal characters \u008E, not the symbol it stands for. Do I need quotes, or square/curly brackets or something else to enclose the Unicode?

try67
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try67Community Expert
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July 5, 2016

You need to do it using a script, or by entering the code manually, while holding down Alt.

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