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  • Owain Jones 65 posts 437 karma points MVP 4x c-trib
    Jul 08, 2020 @ 11:12
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    TinyMCE can you add more special characters?

    Hello,

    Does anyone know if there is there a way to add more special characters to the TinyMCE special character menu?

    As it's missing some special characters that my language (Welsh) uses. (ŵ and ŷ)

    Cheers!

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  • Aaron 59 posts 407 karma points MVP 2x c-trib
    Jul 08, 2020 @ 13:04
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    In the config folder you have a file called tinyMceConfig.config

    You may be able to do something in there

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  • Owain Jones 65 posts 437 karma points MVP 4x c-trib
    Jul 08, 2020 @ 16:08
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    Thanks for your reply! I found the documentation for that config file, but it doesn't say anything about adding special characters...

    I also found the js file for the special character menu (which is a TinyMCE plugin called Charmap) "/Umbraco/lib/tinymce/plugins/charmap/plugin.min.js"

    I edited it (as a test) and it worked great, but I'm a bit worried that that file would be overwritten during a Umbraco update?

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  • Aaron 59 posts 407 karma points MVP 2x c-trib
    Jul 08, 2020 @ 16:24
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    I'm not sure...

    I know during the update there is a modified files check, and it does prompt whether to overwrite or not, but whether this file would be affected I couldn't say.

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  • Owain Jones 65 posts 437 karma points MVP 4x c-trib
    Jul 09, 2020 @ 11:52
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    I've found the solution! If you add this to the customConfigs section of the tinyMceConfig.config that you mentioned:

    <config key="charmap_append"><![CDATA[[[375, "y - circumflex"],[374, "Y - circumflex"]]]]></config>

    screenshot of the config file

    '375' is the HTML Entity number for ŷ, as shown here: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+0177, as according to the Charmap plugin documentation it uses those character codes to identify symbols https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/plugins/charmap/.

    It will then add them to the symbols menu! Screenshot of the symbols menu with the new symbols added

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