Text Editing

Special characters

Contains a dictionary of names and symbols that, when passed into Choose From List, becomes selectable – for whichever option is chosen, the corresponding symbol will be passed out and copied to the clipboard.

Actions Used

Clipboard, Sharing

Copy to Clipboard

Copies the result of the last action to the clipboard.

Dictionaries, Scripting

Dictionary

Passes the specified list of key-value pairs to the next action as a dictionary.

Lists, Scripting

Choose from List

Presents a menu of the items passed as input to the action and outputs the user’s selection. Prompt The instruction provided when the list is presented. Select Multiple When enabled, multiple items may be chosen from the list.

Extra Details

Run Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Special%20characters

Open Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Special%20characters

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Special characters” end tell

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