Is it possible to generate Unicode character by iPhone shortcut?

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Is it possible to generate Unicode character by iPhone shortcut?

Is there iPhone shortcut Action to generate Unicode character?

Example

CHAR(12992)to output ㋀

iPhone XR, iOS 17

Posted on Jun 27, 2024 6:15 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 30, 2024 3:19 AM in response to Sunnyintoronto123

With forwarded or reply content on smaller iPhone chat APP such as WhatsApp, I am trying to deal with following challenges

without timestamp in front, it takes time to comprehend their date information.
view is truncated

To reduce screen footprint to show more information on , I need to shorten date and timestamp. Example is January or shortest as Jan is more ambiguous compared to single character ㋀ for Chinese literates.

I prefer built-in functionality over APP to minimise maintenance such as downloading them after resetting device to improve performance.i tried JSON.

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Answer 2

Tom Gewecke

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Jun 28, 2024 2:35 AM in response to Sunnyintoronto123

Perhaps you could indicate how you would want to use such an action, in what app? There may be alternative ways to accomplish the same purpose.

Normally Unicode characters are expressed in the hex value, so 12992 is 32c0.

I saw a possible answer elsewhere using something like "convert html to rich text". Does that have any value?

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Answer 3

Tom Gewecke

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Jun 30, 2024 5:34 AM in response to Sunnyintoronto123

Thanks for the explanation! Perhaps someone will have an idea.

Does a shortcut action like "convert html to rich text" offer any possibilities?

While ㋀ is one charcter, it is double width, taking up the real estate of 2 latin charcters.

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Answer 4

Jun 30, 2024 2:45 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

I prefer built-in functionality over APP to minimise maintenance such as downloading them after resetting device to improve performance.i tried JSON.

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