PS3 special characters

[blapplejuice]

Does anyone know if its possible to input special characters specifically ★ as I want to add this to one of my 'folders' in the xmb

I have found out that you can copy some characters on the internet browser and paste them

 

[sandungas]

Is needed to open the file in a hexadecimal editor to add the hexadecimal code for the character, take a look at this list
https://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?number=1024&unicodeinhtml=dec

At top of the page there is a button to "go to other block"... all this blocks are standarized and exists in the PS3 fonts, but the person who edited the font file decides how many characters there are inside each block
In the PS3 fonts there are thousands of characters spreaded in between several blocks

Spoiler

The best way to know which ones are availables is to open the .TTF file in a font viewer/editor in PC (like charmap.exe) and navigate all that blocks

Adittionally... some of that hexadecimal codes are able to load an icon from dev_flash/vsh/resource/imagefont.bin (instead of the character from the .TTF file), you can see a list of the officials here:
https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/XMB_Fonts#Private_Use_Area_.28Unicode_range_from_uE000_up_to_uF8FF.29

Note all that icons have an hexadecimal code that makes them belong to a block named "private use area"... the font editor and the hardware manufacturer have full freedom to add whatever they wants in them... because is private
But all the other characters (out of the private use area) follows the standard rules strictly

 

[DeViL303]

★ This star definitely works on a ps3 with the default official font, I copied it from a ps3 xml. I guess it will work if you copy and paste it into an album name.

 

[sandungas]

Hmm, i guess my explanation is more generic, but i complicated it a bit for this case
Yeahhh, for some of them you can copypaste it from PC and paste it as text in the PS3 file... but only if the font in your PC includes that character, otherway you are going to see a "tofu" in PC
It happens a lot because the fonts we use in PC are missing some of the characters that exists in the PS3 font

Tip:
You can copy the .TTF files from the PS3 firmware and "install" them in your PC... this way you are sure your PC can display all the characters inside them (except the ones from the private area, because are icon images and we cant display them as text in PC)