Or more specifically. The Ascii control character. ^C, 0x03, or STX.
I am trying to get my program to send out color codes in IRC ( I know there is not really a standard for this ), but I am a atleast an hour into research, and I don't know what else to search for. And I don't see anything in VS 2010's options.
All I need to get VS to stop being dumb, and let me input into the text editor the STX or ETX characters. I did already try the encoding in the save as. Any thoughts or ideas please?
You can encode any character using escape sequences:
string s = "\x03"; // note: hexadecimal value
While it is technically possible to get at least some special characters directly in a string, it will be completely hopeless to make sense of since they can't be displayed properly.
Full list (swiped from this page):
\' - single quote, needed for character literals
\" - double quote, needed for string literals
\\ - backslash
\0 - Unicode character 0
\a - Alert (character 7)
\b - Backspace (character 8)
\f - Form feed (character 12)
\n - New line (character 10)
\r - Carriage return (character 13)
\t - Horizontal tab (character 9)
\v - Vertical quote (character 11)
\uxxxx - Unicode escape sequence for character with hex value xxxx
\xn[n][n][n] - Unicode escape sequence for character with hex
value nnnn (variable length version of \uxxxx)
\Uxxxxxxxx - Unicode escape sequence for character with hex
value xxxxxxxx (for generating surrogates)