How to insert a Unicode character in a text?

Hi!

I almost found the answer to my question in this post: https://www.construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/how-do-i-8/add-non-breaking-space-text-152401 but it's too old and I was asked to create a new one.

Using French language, I would like any space before "?", "!", ":", ";" to be replaced by the Braille blank as suggested by Asmodean in the quoted post but I don't know how to insert a Unicode character in a text.

If dop2000 comes around, maybe he could give me a simple example? Or anyone else... Thanks!

Hi. I don't know how to add a special character.

But here's another way.

You can replace the space with a transparent icon sprite.

Don't use a braille blank - use the unicode character "non-breaking space", which is designed specifically for this purpose.

Weirdly it doesn't seem possible to copy-paste a non-breaking space in Chrome - maybe it is normalizing the copied text somehow. However you can type one in on Windows with Alt+0160. Most unicode characters have a code you can type in like that, it should be straightforward to look up the codes.

Thanks for your answers and tips.

I typed Alt+0160 in Notepad++ and it was well recognized as a non-breaking space [NBSP] but when I copy and paste it in Construct, it is replaced by a simple space.

As I said Chrome doesn't seem to allow copy-pasting this character, but you can use the Alt+0160 sequence to type it directly in to Construct.

I'm not sure what you mean - isn't this just typing a special character? What are you doing exactly that no longer works?

Maybe to make things easier you could put the non-breaking space in a global constant string variable, and then you can always refer to it in expressions via that variable name.