Autohotkey V1 cannot reassign German keyboard's ö, ä, ü

[rin67630]

Hi Experts here,
using Autohotkey V1, I cannot reassign German keyboard's ö, ä, ü

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!ä::Send {Asc 0156}
!+ä::Send {Asc 0140}
!ö::Send {Asc 145}
!+ö::Send {Asc 146}

are not accepted in the script.

Then I tried with the scan codes, which lines are accepted, but do not work.

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!SC0x4C::Send {Asc 0156}
!+SC0x4C::Send {Asc 0140}
!SC0x52::Send {Asc 145}
!+SC0x52::Send {Asc 146}

Has anyone got a clue how to do it right?
Do I have to change the AHK version?

Regards and thank you for helping.
Laszlo

[mikeyww]

Welcome to this AutoHotkey forum!

Although others here know more about German keyboards, my general understanding is that while scan codes use hex values, they omit the 0x notation.

Explained: Key names • Example

3-digit hexadecimal value

[gregster]

Autohotkey V1 cannot reassign German keyboard's ö, ä, ü

If that was true, I think we would have noticed.

Did you save your script in UTF-8 with BOM encoding?
If not, you should: https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/FAQ.htm#nonascii

[rin67630]

Autohotkey V1 cannot reassign German keyboard's ö, ä, ü

If that was true, I think we would have noticed.

Did you save your script in UTF-8 with BOM encoding?
If not, you should: https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/FAQ.htm#nonascii

Thank you for that information that i missed.
I now saved my file in UTF with BOM now, but with no more success:

the lines
!ä::Send {Asc 0156}
!+ä::Send {Asc 0140}
!ö::Send {Asc 145}
!+ö::Send {Asc 146}

are still wrongly interpreted:


Can it be that the version V1 that I downloaded yesterday still is not UTF-aware?

[gregster]

With german Umlauts, for me also the ANSI version works. But generally I would recommend to use a Unicode version.
What version are you using anyway? Edit: I guess the latest v1, if you downloaded it yesterday.
I am using v1.1.34.03 Unicode 64 bit, but Unicode 32 bit and ANSI (also available in the installation folder) worked for me as well.

That error looks more like you are still not using UTF-8 with BOM encoding - at least like an encoding problem of the script file.
Perhaps try a fresh file... and exit all already running scripts.

Btw, I would recommend this method instead of the Ascii codes:

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!ä::Send {text}œ

[rin67630]

Can it be that the version V1 that I downloaded yesterday still is not UTF-aware?

The issue is solved:
Loaded V2 and it works like a charm.

[gregster]

Well, v2 (beta) doesn't require a BOM (byte order mark) anymore, it's true. But the syntax is pretty different now.
Still, v1 should work with BOM.