How can I get special characters using elm-html module?

Question

Disclaimer: I\'m brand new to Elm

I\'m fiddling around with the online Elm editor and I\'ve run into an issue. I can\'t find a way to get certain special charac

Answer 1

You can use directly the unicode escape code in Elm strings and chars:

We have a util module containing all our special chars like:

module Utils.SpecialChars exposing (noBreakSpace)

noBreakSpace : Char
noBreakSpace = '\x00A0'

Which can be used as:

let
  emptyLabel = String.fromChar noBreakSpace
in
label []
    [ span [ ] [ text emptyLabel ]
    ]

This will render a