ASC does not work on Google Docs

[kireta]

ASC does not work on Google Docs for many symbols.

Example:

Alt+248 will generate the degree symbol, as expected with this Alt code

This AHK snippet will generate degree symbol in MS Word:

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:?*::de::{ASC 248}

Same snippet generates one of the following characters in Google Docs:

ÿ or `

Not sure why?

[VividOmenOfDarkness]

I found a way around with this using character map and SendInput{}. Simply find the special character in your case its " ° ", then pass it in the SendInput.
e.g.
SendInput {°}

this should work both in MS Word and Google Docs.

I think the reason why it is different because the hotkey that MS WORD uses is different from the original hotkey found in the character map. So google probably made their own hotkeys rather than copying to Microsoft.