How to combine Unicode characters?

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How to combine unicode characters?

Say I have a character "a" which I need to combine with a symbol ( ̌ ) which I have in form of a hex value "030c". What do you think would be the best way to combine them? P.S. Thanks, "a\u030c" does give â in logcat, but on android itself, it just shows a blank square. Is there a way to fix it without having the users to install additional fonts?

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"a\u030c" or "\u01ce", the latter being the a-caron ǎ.

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