$ sign in a Text widget , how to show special characters in flutter? how to set special character to text widget in flutter

Question

I am trying to write a $ sign in a Text

Text("Refer and Win 10 000 $")

I get an error

What is the correct way to write this?

Solution 1

As @Davy M mentioned, you have to escape the $ because it's used as a control character for embedding variables in a string. See the Dart docs: https://www.dartlang.org/guides/language/language-tour#strings

Solution 2

You can use Runes class which does not need any plugin

Example

You want to show Dollar sign and you know its unicode value ie U+0024

Now to show it in text you can use Runes class and convert it to show Dollar sign ($) Just need to use the unicode value after U+ ie 0024 and then append it with \u

Usage

Text(new String.fromCharCodes(new Runes('\u0024'))),

List of special characters

Comments

[Llama]

you reference the docs without answering the question..... One can use the '\' character to escape in flutter --> '\$' will allow you the include the $ character within your string