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How to make star symbol?

I'm trying to find a font or some way to make a star symbol appear for my ratings column. I have seen lots of configs that have them, but I haven't got it to work. I am using Tahoma font and have tried the following string to, which didn't work

$char(2605)

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

How to make star symbol?

Reply #1 –
Run charmap.exe, chose the font Arial Unicode MS, search for the symbols, and copy and paste them into foobar.

★ = U+2605
☆ = U+2606
✩ = U+2729

You should be able to keep Tahoma as your font in foobar2000, Windows automatically switches to Arial Unicode MS for those characters.

How to make star symbol?

Reply #2 –
It should be noted that the numbers reported in Character Mapper are hexadecimal, and need to be converted to decimal for $char(). Windows Calculator should be sufficient for that, if you switch into Scientific view and use the F5/F6 keys to switch between hex and decimal.

How to make star symbol?

Reply #3 –
I still can't get the star symbol to display  It just shows up as a small square if I cut and paste it from charmap.exe to foobar. I also tried using the decimal number to display it.

Ex $char(9733)

But it just comes up with squares.

How to make star symbol?

Reply #4 –
Use Arial Unicode MS as the main font, then.

How to make star symbol?

Reply #5 –
Yes, using a font which supports the characters you want is also a requirement. To my knowledge, there are no user interfaces which support mixing multiple fonts through automatic font mapping, which in itself is a complicated procedure.

How to make star symbol?

Reply #6 –
I got the stars and other symbols to display using Arial Console Unicode font, but another weird problem came up. It seems to rotate symbols counter-clockwise 90 degrees when I insert a symbol...

How to make star symbol?

Reply #7 –
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I got the stars and other symbols to display using Arial Console Unicode font, but another weird problem came up. It seems to rotate symbols counter-clockwise 90 degrees when I insert a symbol...
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i was messing with it as well and i think you selected "@ Arial Unicode MS".  Scroll down and select "Arial Unicode MS".

How to make star symbol?

Reply #8 –
Lol, thats what it was. Thanks for the help