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Asked: 2026-05-14T00:11:16+00:00

How can one insert a Unicode string CSS into CleverCSS ? In particular, how

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How can one insert a Unicode string CSS into CleverCSS?

In particular, how could one produce the following CSS using CleverCSS:

li:after { 
   content: "\00BB \0020";
}

I’ve figured out CleverCSS’s parsing rules, but suffice that the permutations I’ve thought sensible have failed, for example:

li:
   content: "\\00BB \\0020" // becomes content: 'BB 0'

EDIT: My other examples and the rest of my post weren’t saved. Suffice to say that I had a longer list of examples that’s missing.

I’d be grateful for any thoughts and input.

Brian

EDIT: I noted that inserting the unicode was one of the problems (once you start uploading CSS with utf-8 encoding it’s fine). The wrapping of quote characters is another, which I solved that with something crazy likeso:

content: "'".string() + " ".string() ».string() + "'".string()

Hope that helps someone else.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This may be silly, but why still bother with escape sequences when you can just type/paste the actual characters? “A CSS style sheet is a sequence of characters from the Universal Character Set”.

    That is a lot easier on the eye, and is especially useful when maintaining existing code.

    Or is CleverCSS not Unicode-enabled?

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