UNICHAR DAX Function (Text)
Returns the Unicode character that is referenced by the given numeric value.
Syntax
| Parameter | Attributes | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Number |
Number is the Unicode number(code point) for which you want the Unicode character. |
Return values
A character represented by the Unicode number.
Remarks
If numbers are numeric values that fall outside the allowable range, UNICHAR returns an error.
If the number is zero (0), UNICHAR returns an error.
The Unicode encoding used by DAX is UTF-16.
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Examples
-- UNICHAR returns a character given the Unicode value
-- UNICODE returns the Unicode value for a character
-- The example uses UNICODE ( "━" ) = 9473
EVALUATE
{
( "UNICODE ( ""━"" )", UNICODE ( "━" ) ),
( "UNICHAR ( 9473 )", UNICHAR ( 9473 ) )
}
EVALUATE
ADDCOLUMNS (
VALUES ( 'Product'[Color] ),
"Histogram", REPT ( UNICHAR ( 9473 ), [Sales Amount] / 1000000 )
)
| Value1 | Value2 |
|---|---|
| UNICODE ( “━” ) | 9473 |
| UNICHAR ( 9473 ) | ━ |
| Color | Histogram |
|---|---|
| Silver | ━━━━━━━ |
| Blue | ━━ |
| White | ━━━━━━ |
| Red | ━ |
| Black | ━━━━━━ |
| Green | ━ |
| Orange | ━ |
| Pink | ━ |
| Yellow | |
| Purple | |
| Brown | ━ |
| Grey | ━━━━ |
| Gold | |
| Azure | |
| Silver Grey | |
| Transparent |
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Last update: Oct 22, 2021 » Contribute » Show contributors
Contributors: Alberto Ferrari, Marco Russo
Microsoft documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/unichar-function-dax