Sprite - Icons with text (e.g. emoticons)

Hi,

it seems that one feature we use from NGUI is missing: To have special markup in the font gets replaced by custom icons.

We use this to display things like resource symbols in tooltip flow-text like "This spell costs {G} 100 and will do {FD} 10-15 damage" and {G} gets replaced by a gold coin and {FD} by a symbol for fire damage..

Any ideas how this could be achieved with the upcoming UI?

Can we use custom bitmap font textures where some rarely used unicode characters are replaced...

Sprite - Icons with text (e.g. emoticons)