special characters in config

please how to make that player can insert into config symbols like § or other?

§ works without doing anything. You can use str_replace() for other symbols.

THX so i can't insert to config.yml special symbols?

What do you mean with special symbols?

Special characters

Like?

Ohh, just do

PHP:

$symbol = $this->getConfig()->get("Symbol");

and use $symbol instead of the hearts. Also create a new Folder in Source Files which is called resources. In there, create a config.yml File. In the config.yml file, add Symbol: ♥

I know how to create config and thanks

and can i use $this->getConfig("symbol") ?

You can.
If you put special characters into your config, Minecraft: PE will assume that you used UTF-8 because Config will just return the text in the config as-is, without any conversion, specification or assumption of characters sets.
Same with putting special characters in quotes in PHP code.
Therefore, always code in UTF-8 and edit configs using UTF-8 because that's what MCPE will assume it as.

OK thanks.

so why when i set in config something with § so: yaml_parse(): reading error encountered during parsing: invalid leading UTF-8 octet (line 1, column 1)

Try to add "" like
Symbol: "§"

I solved this using {COLOR} instead of §

using § in plugins is bad practice and can cause errors and sometimes dosen't work, use TextFormat::<color>. You can use a str_replace() if you want to use the symbol in a config and change it to TextFormat::<color>.

Sure

Usually, in MCPC a & is used instead of §, and then the plugin will str_replace("&","§",$string); so colours would be &a, &b, &c etc. You may find this easier than {COLOR}

I actually use this function in my Utils class:

PHP:

public static function colour($string) {
        return preg_replace("/&([0123456789abcdefklmnor])/i", "§$1", $string);
}

This prevents strings like "Hi & Hello!" being changed to "Hi Hello", and it will only replace the & when there is a valid colour code after it.

THX

Why is it &a &bWhat does those stand for? Sorry because I never used color codes like that.

& is instead of § and using § you can make colors in mcpe