koobas.hobune.stream
Detect and replace a wingding character with unicode character.
Hello, so I'm using itextsharp to import some text from a pdf. Inside the pdf are a bunch of bullets, but when i display them on TextMeshPro text or normal text, it looks like an empty square. (If this shows up: )
The bullets in the pdf are Wingdings Code 167, and I want to replace that code with \u2022 (Unicode bullet)
I'm using visual studio, so when I debug line per line, I can the bullets, but as soon as I encode the string to something else like unicode, the bullets get replaced with a "?" 
Here is the unencoded image. I want to replace those with the code \u2022 
Here is the encoded image. I can't replace "?" with \u2022
Now I can't use the encoded text because I'm trying to replace the bullets with \u2022, but if they're questions marks it'll replace 'all' question marks, which would be wrong. So basically my main question is, how can I detect the Wingding bullets, their character code? From there it should be a simple matter of using string.replace("Wingding Code","\u2022")
Previously I was using:
byte[] UBytes = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(sentenceLines[i]);
if (UBytes[j] == 63)
{
char character = (char)UBytes[j];
sentenceLines[i] = sentenceLines[i].Replace(character.ToString(), "\u2022");
}
but yet again, I can't use encoding. I've tried ASCII, Unicode, UTF32, UTF8, UTF7, and BigEndianUnicode. All replace to a "?"
If you have any questions please ask.
So I found my answer. I converted it to a byte without encoding it (Didn't know I could do that before) and tested if that byte occurred. Than if it occurred, I replaced it with /u2022.
