Special characters in Flutter

Question

How can I add a special character (e.g., copyright sign instead of (c)) in the following example:

Widget copyrightText = new Container(   padding: const EdgeInsets.only(left: 32.0, right: 32.0),   child: Text('2018 (c) Author's Name'), ); 

Answer 1

You can add it as unicode like

 child: new Text('2018 \u00a9 Author's Name'), 

or

 child: new Text('2018 © Author's Name'), 

See also

• How can I write a 3 byte unicode character as string literal

Answer 2

Only one other thing to add.

Dart/Flutter add another concept of "Runes" which are integer/Unicode representations of Strings (beyond what you can type) ... e.g.

var myRichRunesMessage = new Runes('2018 \u00a9 Author\'s Name \u{1f60e}'); print(new String.fromCharCodes(myRichRunesMessage)); 

Which would render something like this ...

Pretty cool capability to enable characters not generally typeable on many keyboards - even Emoji :-) ...