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Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 12:09:49 -0400
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I have a UTF-8 encoded byte array consisting of the hexadecimal numerical values, for example the 3-byte array (a): &quot;E2 99 A0&quot;.  

I can convert this array using &quot;b=native2Unicode(a,'UTF-8') to obtain a 2-byte character string, but I want to be able to view the result, (in this example, the Black Spade Suit character, Unicode 02660).

Since I believe that Matlab can't display this in the command window[1], I would like to display this in the HTML results produced by the Publish process, (M-file editor cell mode option).  The resulting HTML file does have a &quot;meta&quot; definition in the &lt;head&gt; that includes:

    contents=&quot;text/html; charset=utf-8&quot;.

So I'm trying to figure out what Matlab commands I need to issue in order to get the desired result from the UTF-8 encoded array, or if I need to learn about style sheets to get the desired result.

Note
[1] I've tried various desktop code fonts in the preferences including Arial Unicode MS which displays a square box for the desired result in the example below.


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         Example Matlab code
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a=uint8([hex2dec('E2'),hex2dec('8C'),hex2dec('A0')])
     226 140 160

b=native2unicode(a,'UTF-8')

    %nothing displayed in monospace fonts
    %empty square box displayed in Arial Unicode MS

whos
    Name  Size Bytes  Class
    a     1x3    3    uint8
    b     1x1    2    char
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Reference URLs:
http://isthisthingon.org/unicode/index.phtml?page=02&amp;subpage=6&amp;glyph=02660
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/utf8.htm

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