display Unicode text in text fields

Scripting Forums AppleScript Studio & Xcode
#1

Can anyone help with displaying Unicode text, such as nice stars and arrows, in text fields of AppleScript Studio programs, without resorting to procedural C or C+++ calls? Am I talking sense here? :oops:

#2

set star_symbol to (do shell script “perl -e 'print (”\x{2605}“)'”)

#3

Or:

set star_symbol to «data utxt2605»