ShowSpecialCharacters

ShowSpecialCharacters

is an option for Style and Cell that specifies whether to replace \[Name], \:nnnn, etc. by explicit special characters.

Details

Examples

Basic Examples  (1)

Display special characters as the rendered characters, or by name:

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\[Alpha]\[Integral]\[DoubleStruckCapitalA]
Wolfram Research (1996), ShowSpecialCharacters, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowSpecialCharacters.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (1996), ShowSpecialCharacters, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowSpecialCharacters.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 1996. "ShowSpecialCharacters." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowSpecialCharacters.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (1996). ShowSpecialCharacters. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowSpecialCharacters.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_showspecialcharacters, author="Wolfram Research", title="{ShowSpecialCharacters}", year="1996", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowSpecialCharacters.html}", note=[Accessed: 22-February-2025 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_showspecialcharacters, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={ShowSpecialCharacters}, year={1996}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowSpecialCharacters.html}, note=[Accessed: 22-February-2025 ]}