Outputting a Unicode character in C#

Question

I'm new to programming and self taught. I'm trying to output the astrological symbol for Taurus, which is supposed to be U+2649 in Unicode. Here is the code I'm using...

string myString = "\u2649";
byte[] unicode = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(myString);
Console.WriteLine(unicode.Length);

The result I'm getting is the number 2 instead of the symbol or font. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong.

Answer 1

Why are you converting it to unicode, this will not do anything.. lose the conversion and do the following:

string a ="\u2649"  ; 

Console.write(a) ; 

Answer 2

You need to have a font which displays that glyph. If you do, then:

Console.WriteLine(myString); 

is all you need.

EDIT: Note, the only font I could find which has this glyph is "MS Reference Sans Serif".