How to insert a particular character symbol? Topic is solved

[Mike_Fay]

Hi, on my tiny personal wiki, I am trying to insert an en-dash and other symbols as can be found on this MediaWiki page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Special_characters

I can google a lot of help on inserting symbols but part of my problem is I don't even know what symbol system is being used there. Also I am pasting into the wiki editing screen in a Chrome browser, so none of the MS Office tricks work. In fact I've tried very hard but can't figure out the Alt-Numpad codes for the en-dash and other symbols seen on that page.

At this point I have resorted to simply copying and pasting. It works fine, but it's pretty annoying to keep popping over to some other page just to copy a symbol.

I'm a little lost. Could anyone help? I'm using AHK v1.1.31.01 on a PC with auto-updated Win10 and auto-updated Chrome.

[Rohwedder]

Hallo,
see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Unicode
The unicode of EN DASH is U+2013
Try:

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q::Send, {U+2013}

[mikeyww]

Another here; I did not see Rohwedder's post earlier.

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::nd::–

Type SpaceNDSpace.

[Lepes]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_Map_(Windows)#:~:text=Character%20Map%20is%20a%20utility,in%20lieu%20of%20typing%20them.

I think that application is already installed on every windows, just search "character Map" to find out the code.

[mikeyww]

I use a whole bunch of these things with hotstrings, because I can never remember the numbers, but then I forget what the hotstrings are....

[GEV]

Most of those symbols (if not all) can you send in AHK by using the Send {Text} . command AFAIK.

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; Ctrl+Shift+a
^+a::Send {Text}@

[mikeyww]

Sure, simple enough even as:

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F3::Send –

[Mike_Fay]

Nice! Thank you, @GEV @Lepes @Rohwedder and especially @mikeyww. You've given me a lot of tools for working with special characters. I really need them!

Lepes, I knew about the Windows Character Map but it can be a real pain to find a particular character in... there's no search box per se. However you inspired me to fire it up again and I found the en dash easily enough. Lo and hold, Alt-Numpad 0150 works fine. I could swear I tried that before. Probably many times. Is there some weird thing where sometimes it works and sometimes doesn't? (rhetorical question) Sometimes I kinda give up on all this stuff, ya know? Anyway, I'll keep using it now.

You've all given me some great lookup tables and other ideas for using Unicodes and special characters, with AHK. I'll be using them.

I know what you mean, mikeyww!

[Mike_Fay]

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Type SpaceNDSpace.

Thanks but I'm not sure I'm following ... are you saying I can set up my wiki editor to allow me to use SpaceNDSpace as a substitution of sorts, that I can use from then on? This would be great; then I don't have to remember Alt-0150.

But where would I set it up? On the particular wiki page in question? Or maybe somewhere like my Mediawiki's common.css or something?

Or maybe you mean in AHK? If so, I can't recall that type of hotkey-creation approach before. Is there a name for it? (a text-substitution hotkey?)

Thanks!

[mikeyww]

Exactly right. This is an AHK script that shows a hotstring.

[flyingDman]

If the Character Map is difficult to navigate, create your own. Here with the character-set you mentioned. Click and insert (Save as UTF w/ BOM):

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var = ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÑÒÓÔŒÕÖØÙÚÛÜßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïñòóôœõöøùúûüÿ¿¡«»§¶†‡•-–—™©®¢€¥£₤¤αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρσςτυφχψωΓΔΘΛΞΠΣΦΨΩ∫∑∏√−±∞≈∝≡≠≤≥×·÷∂′″∇‰°∴ø∈∩∪⊂⊃⊆⊇¬∧∨∃∀⇒⇔→↔↑ℵ∉°₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹

f12::
w:=20, cnt := 14, arr := strsplit(var)
gui, new
gui, -caption
gui, margin, 0,0
gui, font, s10
loop,% arr.count()
	{
	x := mod((a_index - 1),cnt) * w, y := floor((a_index - 1)/ cnt) * w
	gui, add, text, x%x% y%y% w%w% h%w% center vz%a_index% ginsert,% arr[a_index]
	}
gui, show
return

insert:
gui,submit
send % arr[substr(A_GuiControl,2)]
return

esc::
exitapp

[Mike_Fay]

Wow, that's cool! Thanks for that, @flyingDman !

[amateur+]

If the Character Map is difficult to navigate, create your own. Here with the character-set you mentioned. Click and insert (Save as UTF w/ BOM):

Genius! Thanks!