Quick accent en-dash appears to be linked to Hebrew rather than special characters

[Arzza]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.87.0

Installation method

PowerToys auto-update

Running as admin

None

Area(s) with issue?

Quick Accent

Steps to reproduce

Check available characters for "-"
Choose a character set
Disable Hebrew
Check available characters for "-"

✔️ Expected Behavior

En-dash (U+2013) should be visible.

❌ Actual Behavior

En-dash (U+2013) disappears from the list.
Would have expected it to be linked to special characters.

Other Software

No response

[similar-issues-ai]

We've found some similar issues:

• Em dash no longer available in Quick Accent tool #28808 , similarity score: 84%

If any of the above are duplicates, please consider closing this issue out and adding additional context in the original issue.

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[jaimecbernardo]

Hi @Arzza , In special characters, En-dash (U+2013) is still in there, but if you press the comma (",") key. Does this help? /needinfo

[bszonye]

@jaimecbernardo the en dash does not appear for me under the hyphen-minus key or the comma key. i have all character sets enabled.

[bszonye]

actually i'm seeing much stranger behavior now. after trying Quick Accent on the comma key, i tried the hyphen again, and suddenly there were only two characters appearing on that key: the en dash and the hebrew punctuation maqaf.

i double-checked my Quick Accent settings and found that about half of the options were turned off, including Special Characters. i fixed that and now i'm seeing the behavior reported above: the en dash appears both on the hyphen key (where it is tied to the Hebrew script) and on the comma key (where it is tied to Special Characters).

[jaimecbernardo]

That's very weird, indeed 🤔 Has it been stable after that? Or is it jumping around in terms of Settings?

[jaimecbernardo]

Gave it another test and Em Dash appears for me on VK_COMMA:

[bszonye]

i cannot reproduce the unstable options, but i can describe what happened more precisely:

1. used Quick Accent on hyphen-minus, no en dash
2. used Quick Accent on comma, no en dash there either
3. opened settings to check my character set options, saw "[-] All available" at the top level. i misinterpreted the colored hyphen as "all options selected" instead of "some options selected."
4. used Quick Accent again, saw almost all symbol characters missing.
5. checked settings again & opened the character set dropdown this time. about a third of the options were unchecked, all at the end of the list.
6. i clicked "All available" which changed from a hyphen to a checkmark, and selected all character sets.
7. tested Quick Accent again, found the en dash on hyphen-minus and comma.
8. temporarily disabled Hebrew script, found en dash missing from hyphen-minus.

summary:
en dash is not attached to the scripts & keystrokes i would expect
opening the settings page the first time seems to have corrupted my options

i suspect the settings glitch is related to a migration between Quick Accent upgrades, but i can't reproduce to verify

[Arzza]

Yes, en-dash appears on comma tied to special characters, but it's not the key I'd expect to see it on

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On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 at 08:39, B. Szonye ***@***.***> wrote: i cannot reproduce the unstable options, but i can describe what happened more precisely: 1. used Quick Accent on hyphen-minus, no en dash 2. used Quick Accent on comma, no en dash there either 3. opened settings to check my character set options, saw "[-] All available" at the top level. i misinterpreted the colored hyphen as "all options selected" instead of "some options selected." 4. used Quick Accent again, saw almost all symbol characters missing. 5. checked settings again & opened the character set dropdown this time. about a third of the options were unchecked, all at the end of the list. 6. i clicked "All available" which changed from a hyphen to a checkmark, and selected all character sets. 7. tested Quick Accent again, found the en dash on hyphen-minus *and* comma. 8. temporarily disabled Hebrew script, found en dash missing from hyphen-minus. summary: en dash is not attached to the scripts & keystrokes i would expect opening the settings page the first time seems to have corrupted my options i suspect the settings glitch is related to a migration between Quick Accent upgrades, but i can't reproduce to verify — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#36370 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AJIFYOKQHTWO6VRX6DH464T2GHTRXAVCNFSM6AAAAABTXEHGLKVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDKNJSGMYTKNRRGY> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>