Special Characters Plugin Request

[realelvish]

Hello!

I run a forum that deals with translations into foreign languages, languages that require special characters that don't come on a qwerty keyboard. We only need a small set of the special characters:

Á á É é Í í Ó ó Ú ú Ý ý
 â Ê ê Î î Ô ô Û û ? ?
Æ æ Ë ë Œ œ
Ð ð Þ þ Ñ ñ

So, in the same place that you can change the font or make text bold, a drop-down menu that would insert special characters would be really helpful for my forum's users.

Thank you for your consideration,

dreamingfifi of realelvish.net

[Wormopolis]

I want to say that the code Chris wrote for adding things to the editor toolbar could pull this off? maybe?

[realelvish]

Is there a link to this code?

[Chris]

Unfortunately the BBCode buttons plugin is geared toward adding attributes not content, this would be best done with a dedicated code. I'll see if I can whip up something over the weekend if the request is not yet filled. I am however curious whether these characters would not be more quickly created by typing their alt codes?

[Stern]

Hey,

Something I was thinking (Don't kill me, coding peoples!), perhaps it would be easier for you to use the censored words function of Proboards? Set it to replace something that otherwise wouldn't come up in text with one of your alt codes, and then everyone would know that, to get this letter, type this into the body of your message? (As long as you don't select 'exact word')

For example, take this character: œ
You could set 'oe' (with the ' marks) as the censored word, and then set the replacement to be œ, so that if I were to type (sorry, don't know any actual words, so I'm making this up to demonstrate) dr'oe'k, it would replace the middle, and make the text read drœk?

[Chris]

Stern that's a magnificent idea!

realelvish here's the code you requested, I created it (despite Stern 's wonderful suggestion) for those of us who have trouble remembering alt codes or what represents with what in replacement strings. It is based on the character map that ships with windows but allows definable characters and character ranges to avoid searching through hundreds of characters just to type one single glyph.

Character Map.pbp
PBP File
version 0.0.7
Updated: Oct. 25, 2016

How to (manually) install a plugin (by Ryan Roos )

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Updates

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• Feb. 22, 2014 [v0.0.6]
  
  1. Added Unicode entry field
  2. Added a drop down menu to choose a range when multiple sub-ranges are specified in settings
  3. Added tooltip help for various fields
  
  
• Feb. 19, 2014 [v0.0.5]
  
  1. Changed default character click action to insert rather than magnify. Holding CTRL while clicking will now open magnified view
  
  
• Feb. 18, 2014 [v0.0.4]
  
  1. Added ability to incorporate installed Google web fonts as well as specify a default font to use when the character map dialog opens.
  
  
• Feb. 16, 2014 [v0.0.3]
  
  1. Enforced having only one magnified character opened at any given time.
  
  
• Feb. 16, 2014 [v0.0.2]
  
  1. Added status key shortcuts: holding ctrl key while clicking a character will bypass magnify phase and enter value directly into insertion box. If alt is also pressed along with ctrl while clicking then character will be automatically inserted into post and dialog closed.
     Changed in a later revision: normal click adds character to insertion box and holding CTRL instead opens up a magnified view. As before, holding ALT while clicking (CTRL not necessary) will insert into post and close dialog

DISCLAIMER: tested for compatibility in Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer but undiscovered bugs may still exist

[Wormopolis]

Incredible

[Chris]

If anybody has tried this plugin I would love to hear your horror stories

[Former Member]

Nov 28, 2014 20:26:40 GMT -8 Chris said:

If anybody has tried this plugin I would love to hear your horror stories

yes i have    and it's pretty cool, i'v filled it all with a load of new ones buuuuuut 1 year too late  the colored ones don't seem to work, and i'v tried changing the u1 to 0x  if that's right, and it it still didn't work. 



?   these work

?  but these don't


I'm not wanting you to edit it all after so long but feel free and i'll use it, i'm using it anyways with the black ones. 


other than that it seems to work. 

[Chris]

Oct 21, 2016 12:22:48 GMT -8 @joecool111 said:

Nov 28, 2014 20:26:40 GMT -8 Chris said:

If anybody has tried this plugin I would love to hear your horror stories

yes i have    and it's pretty cool, i'v filled it all with a load of new ones buuuuuut 1 year too late  the colored ones don't seem to work, and i'v tried changing the u1 to 0x  if that's right, and it it still didn't work. 



?   these work

?  but these don't


I'm not wanting you to edit it all after so long but feel free and i'll use it, i'm using it anyways with the black ones. 


other than that it seems to work. 

I am only seeing the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) range and the following pasted characters entered into the settings at goldenbeatz

??\t\t?\t\t?\t\t?\t????\t\n\n\n¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ § ¨ © ª « ¬ ® ¯  ° ± ² ³ ´ µ ¶ · ¸ ¹ º » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿  À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï  Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö × Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß  à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ÷ ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 0150 ? ? Œ œ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Š š ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Ÿ ? ? ? ? Ž ž ?  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ? ? ƒ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 01A0 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?\n????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????0280????????????????????????????????02A0??????????????????????????????????????ˆ?????????????????????˜???02E0???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????0390???????????????0????????????????03B0??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Which of course doesn't not contain ? character so unless you add that character it would not be there for your members to use. If you are adding it but it is somehow not saving then that might be a horse of a different color. Keep in mind that there are almost 1 million characters in unicode which is why you add the ones  you want to use for your forum according to the instructions given.

[Former Member]

Oct 21, 2016 13:29:03 GMT -8 Chris said:

Oct 21, 2016 12:22:48 GMT -8 @joecool111 said:

yes i have    and it's pretty cool, i'v filled it all with a load of new ones buuuuuut 1 year too late  the colored ones don't seem to work, and i'v tried changing the u1 to 0x  if that's right, and it it still didn't work. 



?   these work

?  but these don't


I'm not wanting you to edit it all after so long but feel free and i'll use it, i'm using it anyways with the black ones. 


other than that it seems to work. 

I am only seeing the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) range and the following pasted characters entered into the settings at goldenbeatz

??\t\t?\t\t?\t\t?\t????\t\n\n\n¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ § ¨ © ª « ¬ ® ¯  ° ± ² ³ ´ µ ¶ · ¸ ¹ º » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿  À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï  Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö × Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß  à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ÷ ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 0150 ? ? Œ œ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Š š ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Ÿ ? ? ? ? Ž ž ?  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ? ? ƒ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 01A0 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?\n????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????0280????????????????????????????????02A0??????????????????????????????????????ˆ?????????????????????˜???02E0???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????0390???????????????0????????????????03B0??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Which of course doesn't not contain ? character so unless you add that character it would not be there for your members to use. If you are adding it but it is somehow not saving then that might be a horse of a different color. Keep in mind that there are almost 1 million characters in unicode which is why you add the ones  you want to use for your forum according to the instructions given.

i am saving it, and it shows a ? in a diamond like error img instead of the yellow star.


do i have to put some stuff here aswell ? 

[Chris]

If you're seeing a "?" in place of the character then that is the usual way an app lets you know that it has no support for that particular glyph, the other common way is a box with the number of the unsupported character in it. The last time I checked, Chrome had the largest support followed by Firefox but they by no means support the entire unicode spectrum especially since it is constantly updating and evolving.

You are saying you can copy the ? character and paste it into a post but when you try to paste it into the text box on the "Characters" tab it turns into a question mark?


ETA:

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As an example, just two years ago Internet Explorer could not display half the emojis that have been added to unicode (listed here in the "Brow" column) with Chrome able to display them all and Firefox missing just a few, now  I just tested it in the Edge browser and all the emojis appear.


??©®™#??*??0??1??2??3??4??5??6??7??8??9?

[Former Member]

ok well i just tested on chrome and about 90% of them didn't work, they had the ? thing

[Chris]

Unless you are spoofing the user-agent, you appear to be using the latest chrome version (v53.0.2785) on windows 10 the same as I am so surprising that you cannot see 90% of the emojis in my last post while I am seeing all of them using the same setup. If I view using Firefox however the majority of them are not viewable

Firefox:



Chrome:

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Samsung Galaxy:


Amazon Fire:

If I specify a font that ships with windows 8 and up that has the emojis then Firefox suddenly sees the light. My understanding is that windows 10 has a mechanism that allows the correct font to be used but certain apps such as Firefox do not take advantage of this. Chrome which just added support for the unicode emojis in version 52 got it right.


Are you able to see them with a particular font specified?

Oct 21, 2016 15:23:32 GMT -8 Chris said:

??©®™#??*??0??1??2??3??4??5??6??7??8??9?

[Former Member]

no im not seeing them in a different font, i see this here tho on chrome, but they just don't show when they go through the plugin, some of the colored ones work and some don't.