[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #34371: Allow Filtering of TinyMCE charmap / Special Characters

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#34371: Allow Filtering of TinyMCE charmap / Special Characters
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 Reporter:  mrwweb           |      Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  TinyMCE          |    Version:
 Severity:  normal           |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                   |
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 The special characters feature of TinyMCE is quite useful and the list of
 characters it provides are generally the most popular. However, there are
 times when characters that would be extremely useful to site editors are
 missing. I and [http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/70364/how-to-
 customize-the-symbols-that-appear-in-the-visual-editor-insert-custom-char
 others] have specifically run into this when building sites that need
 characters common in Hawaiian. Other common symobls I could imagine sites
 needing:

 - Currencies on finance-related sites
 - Math symbols on academic and educational sites (fractions, advanced
 calculus)
 - Music symbols
 - More shapes. (I can't think of a site that would need this right now,
 but I bet it exists.)
 - Common English characters missing on international keyboards.

 Use case examples that require removing/reordering characters:

 - Style guide does not allow certain characters.
 - Reordering symbols to move commonly-used ones first to increase ease of
 use.
 - Removing unnecessary symbols helps site editors use the ones they need
 faster.

 It would be ''very'' useful at all the above times to allow the Character
 Map characters to be filtered, so developers can add or remove characters.

 WordPress continues to grow in different sectors and different languages,
 so allowing the map to be filtered would be useful to many different site
 editors.

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