Can you use alt characters in macros?

[Owltoid]

Can you use alt-codes, such as ì or í in macros? I was using a FTL system, but with the renaming of my toons that may no longer be possible. I can't even have an "/assist Owltoìd" since the ì seems to be screwed up.

[Owltoid]

Hmm, it looks like that if you use notepad to edit the macros and put in special characters, then it has problems. However, if I copy it directly into the macro editor in WoW then everything works fine... not sure why

[Owltoid]

More info that possibly nobody else cares about other than me, but if I open the macros in notepad after entering the values through the WoW macro editor, then it makes some sort of translation that holds.

WoW macro editor I entered:
Owltoìd
Owltoíd

Notepad read the character as:
Owltoìd
Owltoíd­

And actually, Owltoíd isn't pasting correctly into this text box because in notepad is actually looks like Owltoí-d

[Owltoid]

After testing it looks like you definitely can use special characters. However, if you use a text editor, such as notepad, then make sure you translate properly otherwise the macros will look like gibberish.

[Jafula]

Some info for you (given to the best of my very limited knowledge):

Wow stores the special characters in a format called UTF-8 . If you use a text editor like windows notepad; it doesn't know how to handle the special characters (I think). However if you use a better editor like Notepad++ you can specify the format to use (which you want to be UTF-8). This is important to know if you want to change addon's saved variables as those files are stored encoded as UTF-8.

[Owltoid]

Thank you very much, Jafula! That could save some headaches in the future.

[Catamer]

maybe you could try WordPad instead of notepad.
I think wordpad uses Unicode while notepad only uses ascii and translates characters around ( or something like that ).

[Bettysue]

It's not only the special characters that get messed up, line breaks are also handled differently in notepad vs the game, so watch for those as well. Notepad saves just a new line character (/n) and the in game editor uses new line followed by a carriage return (/n/r).

[Chorizotarian]

Notepad can do UTF-8 just fine (check the Save As dialog), but it may not be as smart as some other editors at recognizing the encoding if the file isn't saved with something called a Byte Order Mark indicating that it is UTF-8.

I'm actually surprised that WoW saves macros as UTF-8 since LUA doesn't support Unicode.

[Falkor]

Assuming all you're chars are in a group, there would be no harm in setting all you're slaves to follow the leader irrelevant of his name using:

"/target [target=party1] "