I was on the Pico 8 Slack channel and it was brought to my attention that Pico 8 does adorable special characters. I don't know if it's documented anywhere so I made a little cart to show them off. Who needs sprites and tiles when you have ASCII characters? :D
Nice find!
For anyone too lazy to download the cart: Just use them in a string with # in as an escape character.
Eg, you can do \139 to get a left arrow.
Those "egg" characters are actually supposed to be the up, down, left, right, O, and X buttons, and are typeable using shift+[up/down/left/right/o/x] in 0.1.8
Oh cool! I'll update that when I get a chance, thanks. I accidentally stumbled across shift+o
The squiggle one is actually just the tilde '~', and is a fairly standard key on typical US keyboards :p
here they are, in hex:
\0x88 Sauron is watching us
decimal:
\130 meow
I keep this page permanently open when I'm doing pico-8 dev, it's so useful. Thanks!
Here's a complete characters map for who needs it:
For typing Gryphs in the editor you can press Shift+(Key that flashes in the charmap), for example Shift+H inserts a Heart, you can also type \135 inside a string.
And yes, there are lowercase letters in the characters map.
>And yes, there are lowercase letters in the characters map
you can see them in the listing with ls, when encountering folders mixing upper and lower case
>The squiggle one is actually just the tilde '~', and is a fairly standard key on typical US keyboards :p
that character used to be quite common in internet urls like http://website.com/~usernamefolder ; it looked so wierd
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