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How to export the following cell array containing the unicode characters U+2191 and U+2193
str={'this ↑ up','this ↓ down'};
in a text file, in such a way that the two arrows will still be visible?
I tried with
str={'this ↑ up','this ↓ down'};
writecell(str','test')
but I got
I also tried with
fid = fopen('temp.txt', 'w');
str = char([2191, 2193]);
encoded_str = unicode2native(str, 'UTF-8');
fwrite(fid, encoded_str, 'uint8');
fclose(fid);
but I got
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giannit
giannit on 24 Apr 2020
Thank you! I used your codes and then added the utf-8 encoding to writecell, as following
str={['this ' char(8593) ' up'],['this ' char(8595) ' down']};
writecell(str','test','Encoding','UTF-8')
and in this way it works!

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