How to send unicode letters with send function

[kcvinu]

Hi there,

I need to make a script which sends some text in my native language(Malayalam, India) to MS Word. Now AutoIt shows "???????" instead of showing my text. How to fix this.

[draien]

From the Send-Helpfile:

 

To send UNICODE characters you must use the "ASC" option and the code of the character you wish to send (see {ASC} at the bottom of the table below).

To get the Unicode of a character you have to use:

AscW ( "char" )



But AutoIt doesn't fully support all UNICODE characters (just read through the helpfile)

Edited January 13, 2015 by draien

[water]

Or you could use the Word UDF that comes with AutoIt and check if this works as expected.

The UDF is more stable as it doesn't interfere with user input.

[kcvinu]

draien , Thanks for the quick reply. I am planning to make this script with a gui. That is, User can add as many text items in this program and set hotkeys for each text. And when user pressed the hotkey, the text should be appear in the top most window. So i need to use a textbox and find the ASC code of that text. Am i right ?

[kcvinu]

water, i didn't understand properly

[water]

The send function goes to the active window. If the user switches to another window while your script is running you will get wrong results.

The Word UDF uses COM to directly access the Word document.

[draien]

draien , Thanks for the quick reply. I am planning to make this script with a gui. That is, User can add as many text items in this program and set hotkeys for each text. And when user pressed the hotkey, the text should be appear in the top most window. So i need to use a textbox and find the ASC code of that text. Am i right ?

 

Wouldn't it be easier to just copy-paste this?

Use Clipget() and ClipPut()

Like in the following:

ClipPut(GUICtrlRead($YOURTEXTBOXHERE))

;Activate your top most window
ClipPut()
;Or
Send("{^v}")

Edited January 13, 2015 by draien

[kcvinu]

Hi water, I think i need to study more about the term UDF. I hope i can find some tutorials in google. Application focus is not a problem. User only want the text when he/she is working with MS Word. 

[kcvinu]

Hi 

draien

I need variables to store the data from textbox. And may be i need a text file or a database to store those data to get after a restart. So i think the ClipPut func will not work for me.

[water]

UDF stands for User Defined Functions. This libraries add functions to AutoIt and either come with AutoIt (UDFs for Internet Explorer, Excel, Word etc.) or are provided by users on the forum (UDFs for Outlook, Active Directory etc.) or other places.