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    • Mickey Deans
      Mickey Deans last edited by

      I’m using notepad++ from the last few years, and I just love it. But I want to know is there any easy way to insert symbols in the text?
      Any help will be highly appreciated.
      Thanks.

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      • Alan Kilborn
        Alan Kilborn @Mickey Deans last edited by

        @Mickey-Deans

        Symbols, as in like Unicode characters?
        I find copy and paste into Notepad++ works well.
        If you mean something else, post again.

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        • PeterJones
          PeterJones @Mickey Deans last edited by

          @Mickey-Deans ,

          Depends on the character, and how you define “easy”

          If it’s a character in the first 255 character slots, then Edit > Character Panel is your friend.

          For others, I often run Windows charmap.exe (**Run > Run > charmap.exe, then click Save to save it as CharMap with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+C – now I can access it from the Run menu or with the shortcut any time I want.)

          If you know the hex version of the unicode, you can use a windows-technique (Alt and the numeric-keypad + key, then type the hex code) – but you probably won’t memorize all the codes if you use a lot of unicode .

          There are some of the code-snippet plugins, like QuickText, which allow hitting a keystroke (depends on that plugins’ settings) after a certain combo of characters, and it will replace it with something more complicated or different. Unfortunately with QuickText, you cannot use a prefix figure like \ or : to indicate the start, so you cannot do something like \namedChar[KEYSTROKE] to do it (where [KEYSTROKE] indicates whichever keystroke QuickText or your plugin of choice requires for completing snippets).

          I made a PythonScript which will allow backslashes (in fact, requires it): it currently only works with sequences like \uXXXX or \u+XXXX or \0xXXXX, but those again use Unicode codepoint, which is hard to memorize. With some debug, someone could add named backslash sequences… I just haven’t done that yet. Let me know if you’re willing to install PythonScript; if so, I could share what I have now, and might find a bit of time to add a mapping of named sequences as well…

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          • Michael Vincent
            Michael Vincent @PeterJones last edited by

            @PeterJones said in How to insert text symbols in notepad?:

            Unfortunately with QuickText, you cannot use a prefix figure like \ or : to indicate the start

            You should complain to the author to fix that :-)

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            • PeterJones
              PeterJones @PeterJones last edited by

              Alternate idea: find a Windows app that behaves similar to the phone keyboard apps for finding emoji/etc.

              I did a quick search: I haven’t tried any of these, but three promising looking ones:

              • https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/all-the-unicode/9n727jwqzxxw?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
              • https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/universal-character-map/9nblggh67cm0?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
              • https://www.oeaw.ac.at/kal/multikey/

              (I make no warranty or guarantee on the effectiveness or safety of said apps; they are just what I saw when I searched the web for “windows 10 unicode keyboard apps”)

              These have the problem that they aren’t Notepad++ specific solutions, so you’d have to run something else (similar to the charmap.exe suggestion I made earlier, but maybe more intuitive for searching emoji).

              But these have the benefit of being generic Windows apps, so they can be used for typing special characters into any app or dialog, not just the Notepad++ editor tabs.

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              • PeterJones
                PeterJones @Michael Vincent last edited by

                @Michael-Vincent said in How to insert text symbols in notepad?:

                You should complain to the author to fix that :-)

                :-)

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                • Michael Vincent
                  Michael Vincent @PeterJones last edited by

                  @PeterJones said in How to insert text symbols in notepad?:

                  You should complain to the author to fix that :-)

                  :-)

                  Bugger!

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                  • Allan346
                    Allan346 last edited by

                    There isn’t a default option, but you can search “CharMap” in the windows 10 search bar, a window will appear with symbols. There select the desired symbol. Secondly, there are some sites providing a collection of Unicode text symbols that you can easily copy and paste into your text, such as : https://www.madeintext.com/text-symbols/
                    The third option is to use ALT key codes, but you should know the symbol ALT code to type specific text symbol. For example with “ALT+5” you can type this symbol : ♣
                    Hope it will be helpful for you.

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                    • Class Status
                      Class Status last edited by

                      there is lots of site to provide text symbols and notpad++ is the best text editor i ever use
                      but if you use symbols just https://www.thefancytext.com/cool-Symobols

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                          • U
                            Usaid Acc last edited by Usaid Acc

                            So, I just pasted text consisting of Unicode Symbols on Notepad++ and it is working.
                            You can convert simple text to Unicode characters text like the script, bold, circled, squared, etc. from this site: https://stylishtextmaker.com/.
                            Preview:
                            alt text

                            I hope it helps you if this is what you needed.

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                            • Alan Kilborn
                              Alan Kilborn @Usaid Acc last edited by

                              @Usaid-Acc said in How to insert text symbols in notepad?:

                              …from this site: https://stylishtextmaker.com/

                              That seems to be an interesting way to obtain mixed-font text in your document! :-)

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                              • Discord fonts
                                Discord fonts Banned last edited by

                                @peterjones There isn’t a default choice, however you can look “CharMap” in the windows 10 pursuit bar, a window will show up with images. There select the ideal image. Besides, there are a few destinations giving an assortment of Unicode text images that you can without much of a stretch reorder into your text, for example, : font changer copy paste
                                The third choice is to utilize ALT key codes, yet you ought to know the image ALT code to type explicit text image. For instance with “ALT+5” you can type this image : ♣
                                Trust it will be useful for you.

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