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Good day. I'm using TextPad 6. I translate Japanese manga using OCR software. AppliMincho is the font I use to put Japanese characters into TextPad. The OCR software doesn't always differentiate between the long vowel (ー) and the number 1( 一 ). A subtle difference but very important for translation.

While I have ways to import either characters into Textpad, I would like to either create a Macro to type them or perhaps a Clip Library for Katakana/Hiragana, so I can have those characters readily available for me. Since they are in Unicode and I don't know the exact unicode numbers, creating a Macro does not seem to be an option. I have been trying to create a clip library manually, by either creating a .tcl file from scratch or copying and editing an existing .tcl file, but I have been unable to do so: even if I copy and rename a .tcl file, it does not show up in TextPad when I reload the program.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here, but it would save me a lot of time and effort if I could access those two characters at the very least. I appreciate any help in this. Thank you.

-J

Clip libraries in UTF-8 (speak: Unicode) became available with 8.4.0, so with 6.x you're unable to create your own with non-ANSI characters. If I remember correctly then TextPad 7.0 was the first to support Unicode almost fully, while 6.x had its problems dealing with it.

Wikipedia most likely holds an article for each character:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ー tells you: "KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK" is U+30FC
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/一 however is only "KANGXI RADICAL ONE" = U+2F00
• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/一 would not "CJK Ideograph" be "one" = U+4E00?

Also have a look at https://stackoverflow.com/a/53807563/4299358

Thank you. I downloaded TP9, but I haven't set it up yet. Maybe I'll have better luck creating a clip library with the latest version.

-J