Unicode / ALT Codes Thread

[Jon]

Been doing some digging. I was under the impression that the AutoIt {ASC} syntax allowed the sending of all Unicode characters. But's that's incorrect.

All {ASC} does is send ALT followed by the numbers. e.g.

{ASC 0209} = {ALTDOWN}{NUMPAD0}{NUMPAD2}{NUMPAD0}{NUMPAD9}{ALTUP}

All ASC does is send an ALT code and an ALT code does not equal a Unicode "U+NNNN" code. I've found a few sites that list some ALT codes such as http://code.knopok.net/alt-codes.html

But, there appears to be a way to send proper U+NNNN unicode characters using the ALT key but this requires a special registry hack first:

HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method/EnableHexNumpad = 1

(I don't know if there is a HKLM machine wide version).

Once this key is present (I believe it needs a logoff/logon before it works) then you can send U+NNNN codes as follows

ALT+NNNN

Note: The + actually means that you press the + key. So with the registry hack, to send U+2709 we need to do:

{ALTDOWN}{NUMPADADD}{NUMPAD2}{NUMPAD7}{NUMPAD0}{NUMPAD9}{ALTUP}

Some more stuff for future reference for me: http://www.fileformat.info/tip/microsoft/enter_unicode.htm

[Jon]

Hmm, some applications though that use RichEdit controls (like Wordpad) do accept ALT+decimal code to give U+NNNN codes. So U+0A95 can be input using {ASC 2709}. But not in simple edit controls like notepad.

[Valik]

Long story short, Send() is unreliable and you should use ControlSetText() or if you must use Send() then put data on the clipboard and Send() the paste command.

[GEOSoft]

I made it work by running it through ChrW() but I don't think that's the solution you're looking for.

Just modified from the Send() example

Send("#r")
WinWaitActive("Run")
Send("notepad.exe{Enter}")
WinWaitActive("Untitled -")
Send(ChrW(0209))
Exit

[Jon]

Send converts everything to ANSI so unicode chars don't work. If they do it's by chance based on the code page/fluke.

[LeHuynhNam]

hi, i'm nam i'm from Vietnamese!

i have many problem with this!

i wanna create a program with my language but scite doesn't support.

with send() key i don't do this

Send("#r")
WinWaitActive("Run")
Send("notepad.exe{Enter}")
WinWaitActive("Untitled -")
Send(ChrW(0209))
Exit

and i do

$answer = MsgBox(4, "For Jun", "a gift for u! remember turn on Unikey and tick the Unicode check box + set vietnamese language!")


If $answer = 7 Then
    MsgBox(0, "For Jun", "Good bye
    Exit
Else
Run("notepad.exe")

WinWaitActive("Untitled - Notepad")


Send("!o")
Send("F")
Send("Times New Roman")
Send("{tab}")
Send("{tab}")
sleep(50)
Send("14")
Send("+{tab 2}")
Send("{enter}")
Sleep(500)
SEND("Chaof em .")
Sleep(200)
Send(".")
Sleep(200)
Send(".")
Sleep(500)
Send("{enter}")
Sleep(1500)
Send("Anh cos raats nhieeuf ddieeuf muoons nois voiws em!")
Sleep(2000)
; Now quit by pressing Alt-f and then x (File menu -> Exit)
Send("!f")
Send("x")
Send("n")

and in the notepad it will show:

Chào em...

Anh có rất nhiều điều muốn nói với em

i hope in new scite, it will support other language such as Vietnamese

Thanks for reading it!

Nam

Edit: "Anh cos raats nhieeuf ddieeuf muoons nois voiws em!" is the order of letter to show a meaning sentence in Vietnamese

Edited January 11, 2009 by LeHuynhNam