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Categories Expression Engine
Created by Will Lyall
Created on Dec 12, 2024

Expression engine. allow for special characters

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Who would benefit?

Industry users

What impact would it make?

Allow for characters that are commonly used as units to be added

How should it work?

Tested with a degree sign.

If I want to concatenate °C to the end of a temperature value, the output will be 80 °C. The  is common with characters it doesn't recognise.

These special characters are accepted by string/locale fields therefore it would be useful to have the Expression engine recognise them as well.

Example formula would be

=CONCATENATE(FIELDVALUE('ItemTemperatureCelcius')," °C")


Why is it needed?

Special characters are common in industry for units


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