How do you escape the angle brackets in rich text?

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I saw this question but this example didn't really require a real answer.

Let's assume escaping worked the same as HTML. Then I could do this

  string msg = @"Insert your message here.

  You can use rich text like

        this word is &lt;color=red&gt;red&lt;/color&gt;

  which will produce

        this this is <color=red>red</color>";

  GUI.Label(msg, someStyleWithRichTextTrue);

Which when displayed the first color pair would show the codes and the second the result.

So, is there a way to escape the angle brackets in rich text?

Answer 1

Answer by ij · Aug 15, 2016 at 06:37 PM

Put something right after the opening angle bracket:

 this word is <<b></b>color=red>red<<b></b>/color>

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Answer by DynastyV · Oct 10, 2017 at 06:55 PM

There still doesn't seem to be a way to escape the angle characters in rich text. I ended up just replacing every '<' with this unicode character: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/3008/index.htm and every '>' with this unicode character: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/3009/index.htm

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Answer by FortisVenaliter · Jun 07, 2016 at 10:09 PM

Here are the first three google results, all of which answer your question:

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greggman · Jun 07, 2016 at 10:26 PM 0

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You realize I'm talking about Unity3D right? It's has a feature called "rich text"

http://docs.unity3d.com/$$anonymous$$anual/StyledText.html

Which has nothing to do with .RTF

FortisVenaliter greggman · Jun 08, 2016 at 02:15 PM 0

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Ah, my bad. I thought Unity did use the RTF specs for it's rich text.

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Answer by zet23t · Apr 21 at 12:36 PM

I found out that this is working too:

 str.Replace("<", "<\u200B")

The \u200B is a invisible unicode space character and it will prevent that the richtext parser of Unity is able to interpret it as a valid richtext tag, which makes it displayed as raw text.

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