How to insert a Symbol (Pound, Euro, Copyright) into a Textbox

Question

I can use the Alt Key with the Number Pad to type symbols, but how do I programmatically insert a Symbol (Pound, Euro, Copyright) into a Textbox?

I have a

Answer 1

I cant believe this was difficult to find on the internet!

For future developers,if you have the unicode character its easy to do. eg:

C#:

var selectionIndex = txt.SelectionStart;

string copyrightUnicode = "00A9";
int value = int.Parse(copyrightUnicode, System.Globalization.NumberStyles.HexNumber);
string symbol = char.ConvertFromUtf32(value).ToString();

txt.Text = txt.Text.Insert(selectionIndex, symbol);
txt.SelectionStart = selectionIndex + symbol.Length;

VB.Net

Dim selectionIndex = txt.SelectionStart

Dim copyrightUnicode As String = "00A9"
Dim value As Integer = Integer.Parse(copyrightUnicode, System.Globalization.NumberStyles.HexNumber)
Dim symbol As String = Char.ConvertFromUtf32(value).ToString()

txt.Text = txt.Text.Insert(selectionIndex, symbol)
txt.SelectionStart = selectionIndex + symbol.Length