BTW, I just tried replacing the pound sign [35( with unicode [8983( which is a pound sign for telephones. This works on the current Pd 0.51
how so ?
on my machines (win, debian) ASCII code is still wrapped between 0 and 255, like always. so sending ASCII 8983 to [list tosymbol] outputs the same result as ASCII 23. (I'm on PD 0.51.2)
BTW, i use ASCII 164 as a (well, rather unsatisfying) replacement for ASCII 35 (diamond).
And yes, I agree it would be great if canvases would allow this character to be displayed correctly.
best
oliver