Tilde character overhead in graph

[peter cel]

I want to create $\tilde{E}$ in a Stata graph and the only thing i've found is
ytitle("`=ustrunescape("E\u0303")'"))
but this produces a very narrow tilde.
does anyone know something better?

[Andrew Musau]

di ustrtohex("~")

Res.:

. di ustrtohex("~")
\u007e

[peter cel]

thanks. That produces a longer tilde for sure, but it doesn't allow it to be over the letter. In other words I want $\tilde{E}$ not $\ E tilde{}$.

[Andrew Musau]

It could be the default font. If you have an example of the character, pass it through the function in #2 and see if you get the corresponding unicode string. The best I can do is

di ustrtohex("Ẽ")

Res.:

. di ustrtohex("Ẽ")
\u1ebc

See if it is what you want.

[peter cel]

Doesn't quite deliver either. But thanks. It's good to know this ustrtohex command.

[Bjarte Aagnes]

assert ustrunescape("\u1ebc") == ustrnormalize(ustrunescape("\u0045\u0303"),"nfc")

When the character is displayed the width of the tilde depend on the font used.