SVG text element with Unicode characters

Question

First - a short description of a problem. I write a JavaScript function to put some text label\'s in SVG canvas. Here it is:

Answer 1

Replace

set_label (10,50,'QamÚraj')

with

set_lavel(10, 50, "Qam\u00DAraj");

"\u00DA" is four hex digits for Codepoint 218.

Similarly, your other label would be

set_label (10,50,'\u0398\u03b1\u03c1\u03c3\u03b1\u03bd\u03b4\u03b1\u03bb\u03b1')

If you want to find the hex for a Greek character, you can go to http://www.squarefree.com/shell/shell.html and type something like

var hex = "Α".charCodeAt(0).toString(16);
[, "\\x0", "\\x", "\\u0", "\\u"][hex.length] + hex;

which for "Α" produces

\u0391