title: How to make a button that shows the backspace (⌫) character on Android?
body: <p>I'm trying to use the ⌫ character as my backspace symbol in my android app. When I just copy and paste this character as the text value of my Button it works and shows the symbol in the simulator, but when I try to set this character dynamically in Java or when I try to 
  use the Basic Latin value of it (<code>\u232b</code>) it just shows whitespace.</p>
  
  <p>This is when I use the XML editor and my <code>strings.xml</code> value:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/j5N0d.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>My <code>strings.xml</code>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
    &lt;resources&gt;
        &lt;string name="backSpace"&gt;⌫&lt;/string&gt;
    &lt;/resources&gt;   
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In Java I tried hardcoding it like this, but they all result in whitespace:</p>
  
  <pre><code>((Button) mView.findViewById(R.id.buttonClear)).setText("⌫");   
  ((Button) mView.findViewById(R.id.buttonClear)).setText("\u232b");` 
  ((Button) mView.findViewById(R.id.buttonClear)).setText('\u232b'+"");` 
  </code></pre>