Adding new characters (Ğğ Üü Şş Iı Öö Çç Êê Ûû Îî Ẍẍ Ɫɫ Řř Ḧḧ)

[OmerQadirFM]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

please add these characters we as Kurds and Turks need these (Ğğ Üü Şş Iı Öö Çç Êê Ûû Îî Ẍẍ Ɫɫ Řř Ḧḧ) to Quick Accent

Scenario when this would be used?

more than 70 millions Kurds and 100 millions Turks need these characters to Quick Accent

Supporting information

No response

[Jay-o-Way]

We have numerous of requests like this and I'm going to point them towards these. @crutkas might want to pin this to the top of the list?

[htcfreek]

@Jay-o-Way
Can you please stop merging the issues if they are for different letters. We need to track them separately to not miss all the different letter variants.

[dima-f1]

As said in the description

Quick Accent is an easy way to write letters with accents. like on the phone.

So I believe the easiest way to develop will be simply to take the phone and check if all characters from the phone are implemented. For now, also many characters from the polish alphabet are missing

[htcfreek]

@wmentha
Are you working on this?

[crutkas]

I think what could be helpful here is to create groupings with an option for showing everything.

[wmentha]

@htcfreek I've begun compiling a large (perhaps too large) list of Latin diacritics which can be seen here: main...wmentha:PowerToys:AccentPair

We can go over which are relevant and which aren't together. I've found myself including everything from medieval scribal abbreviations to insular script so I'll need someone reign me in 😅 There are a lot of diacritic combinations out there in use in the real world. And what about this character: ℞ Could that be considered a diacritic? I threw it in...

Given the sheer amount of accents out there, it is necessary that we offer the user a settings menu for turning on/off accents as well as allowing them to create their own minuscule / majiscule pairs: #20360 #20312 #20393

Speaking of pairs, instead of listing just the lowercase character and then calling .NETs culture invariant uppercase conversion function, it is better to explicitly list both characters together. Take this issue for example: #20332 .NET does not convert ß to ẞ There are also examples of lowercase characters that have no uppercase equivalent or vice versa.

• ᵬ has no uppercase equivalent
• ı to uppercase is just capital i: I. So no reason to present it in toolbar (used in Turkish alphabet)
• İ to lowercase is just i. So no reason to present it in toolbar

Given these exceptions, instead of manually filtering for them like #20356 I think it's best to group lower/upper case characters together as nullable pairs and filter out the nulls when presenting characters in the toolbar.

I've also added unique characters for currencies: #20339

Please be aware I haven't got around to updating my branch to be coherent with the terrific work done in #20190