Displaying the Full width Unicode Ampersand on Mobile

[John van de Waeter 4]

Hi All,

 

Delphi Sydney 10.4.1

 

I have a Combobox with items. One of those items reads "Tea & Coffee".

The Ampersand is seen as an acceleration character, so it disappears and the next space is underlined: Tea _Coffee.

Nice on Windows, but not very useful on mobile.

Now I can replace the & by && to have it displayed normally, but when a combobox is tapped, iOS takes over and displays the items in a scrollable list at the bottom, now showing "Tea && Coffee"

 

Okay, now trying to stringreplace the & by chr(65286), the unicode full-width ampersand or by chr(65120), the half width ampersand, so it's not recognized as an acceleration character.

Looks okay in Windows, but shows the & lowered on Android and much lowered on iOS when used in a fmx-label or a fmx combobox. 

 

Is there a way to make such a unicode fullwidth ampersand line up with the other characters in a string?

 

Or, if not, is there a (global) way to completely disable the acceleration character in all labels, combo's etc where the & needs to be displayed?

 

Thanks in advance!

John