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4everJang
4everJang
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April 6, 2023
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How to add unicode characters from extendscript

  • April 6, 2023
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One of my scripts requires entering a unicode character, but I have not yet found the method to do so. I need to use the oDoc.AddText method, which requests the second parameter to be a text string. I can enter a unicode character in the script, but it needs to be pulled from an attribute which carries the unicode number for the character. So how do I go from unicode number to an actual character to be pushed into my doc?

Maybe this is trivial, but I am not getting any results with my trials so far. I have tried using the String.fromCharCode(  ) but that results in a question mark (indicating an unknown character).

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Correct answer Klaus Göbel

Hi Jang,

 

try this:

var sAttrValue = "2018";
var sCharCode = String.fromCharCode("0x" + sAttrValue);

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4everJang
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April 7, 2023

Thanks everyone. Nice to get help on various deep-technical things. As you may know, I keep pushing the boundaries of what FrameMaker can do. I am still very much covered in work but I am planning to share some of my scripting tricks when I find the time. Not here, where they will quickly be lost in all the other posts but in a dedicated corner of my Smart Information Design website, so that they remain available as sources of inspiration and reference to taming Frame.

    frameexpert
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    frameexpertCommunity Expert
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    April 6, 2023

    Hi Jang, Try this:

    #target framemaker

var doc, pgf, textLoc;

doc = app.ActiveDoc;
pgf = doc.TextSelection.beg.obj;
textLoc = new TextLoc (pgf, 0);

doc.AddText (textLoc, "\u03C3"); // sigma
    Bob_Niland
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    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
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    April 6, 2023

    re: \u03C3

    Note that this works for Unicode BMP characters only (U+0000 to U+FFFF), 4 hex digit \u markup.

    FM does not yet properly support any Supplementary Plane characters (U+10000 & up, no known markup notation).

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