title: Problem understanding canvas fillText with unicode characters
body: <p>I want to display the special characters in a font using canvas <code>fillText</code>. The code is basically:</p>
  
  <pre><code>canvas = document.getElementById("mycanvas");
  context = canvas.getContext("2d");
  
  hexstring = "\u00A9";
  //hexstring = "\\u" +"00A9";
  
  context.fillText(hexstring,100,100);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I use the first <code>hexstring</code>, it works and I get the copyright symbol. If I use the second one, it just displays <code>\u00A9</code>.  Since I need to iterate through the numbers, I need to use the second one to display all the special characters of a font. I am using utf-8. What am I doing wrong?</p>