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First of all, I've only been using AutoHotkey for a few days, but it's a great little application. I've been getting along with it pretty well, except for inserting ASCII characters using hotstrings.

I have the following working perfectly for getting French accents:



However, to get unicode characters with code numbers above 255, I'm struggling. For example I want my deliberate misspelling of ohms to give me the capital omega that's used as the ohms resistance symbol for electronics:



But this gives me the registered copyright symbol ® instead. I've got the number from converting the hexadecimal code (03A9) for the symbol given in OpenOffice. So obviously I'm missing something here?

Please have a look, if "Transform" with "Unicode" helps in this case.

Quote the help file:

I'm pretty sure it doesn't do what I want to do, as I need to generate Unicode characters, not copy them.

then you haven't read the manual completly.


With you can then send the unicode character to the editor/window.

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toralf

Strange, I tried that hotstring in Word and another editor and it did yield the ohm symbol. Maybe it's some kind of keyboard layout issue. You could try putting a leading 0 in front of 937.

This comes up so often that maybe a help section could be devoted to it. See my notes in http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3513. The problem is that {ASC 937} is equivalent to pressing Alt-Numpad 9,3,7. This method works for some Windows applications, like MS Word or WordPad, but not being a standard Windows feature, it almost never works elsewhere, like in Notepad, PowerPoint, etc.

Ok, thanks for your help Laszlo and toralf. I've worked out how to do what I want. If anybody else is interested I'm using this code:


So when I type ohmss I get the symbol Ω. It seems work in all applications that support display of the symbol (OpenOffice, Firefox, Notepad etc.).

I think it would be really helpful if something like this could be added to the (already very comprehensive) help file, as the {ASC nnnnn} option isn't as universal.

Thanks. I've added this valuable info to the Send command's "Send {Asc nnnnn}" section:
By the way, I haven't forgotten about the ClipboardCore improvement to work around the MS Word bookmark problem you mentioned. It should be done soon, but I'm not sure whether to do it as a new variable (ClipboardCore) or a directive that alters the nature of ClipboardAll for the entire script. A new variable is probably more flexible.

I used the following script to collect the string equivalents of Unicode characters I often need (before I wrote my own keyboard driver).In the Windows character map double-click on the desired symbol and the MsgBox tells the transformed string, which you have to put in the clipboard if you want the Unicode symbol pasted in the application withI hoped to find a simple relationship between ClipUTF and the Windows code U+xxxx, but I could not find any.