Thread:VisualEditor/Feedback/Special characters/reply (5)

Thanks! Some replies and queries in-line:

"I find then the wikitext character inserter has a bit too much scrolling involved and is greedy in screen space."

Yeah, this was something we were particularly keen to avoid repeating, though I feel we've yet to find a design that is better and yet meets the other requirements.

""Should there be a "priority" or "favorites" section for the 10 or 12 characters." Possibly, would I need to set this up?"

I was imagining a "commonly-used" section that the tool defaults to displaying, rather than a per-user set of favourites (though if there's demand for it we could do the latter too, at some point).

"Sometimes, if it very exotic I may use the unicode escape sequence &#x24C5; to give Ⓟ"

Unicode currently has over 100,000 characters defined; I think trying to have a tool that displays even "most" of them is probably unnecessary. Maybe an advanced button that can insert a character by Unicode code (so, in your case, you'd enter "24C5")?