Improved character names about alfred-utf HOT 6 CLOSED

Other suggestions:

• ↩ (Leftwards Arrow With Hook) matching “return”. That’s how it is read by screen readers.
• ⌃ (Up Arrowhead) matching “control” and “ctrl”.

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Thinking about the arrow, there's a difference between arrow with hook and proper return symbol

Correct. I used to use the “return symbol” as well, until I passed my text through macOS’ VoiceOver. If you turn it on and select the following text:

Press ↩
Press ⏎
Press ⮐

It reads the first as “return”, the second as “return symbol”, and the last one isn’t read at all. That’s likely why the first one is the one that is transformed to an emoji.

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@vitorgalvao yes. I'm working on a couple of improvements, and looking at merging alternative names from unicode.

I'll need to hard code the 'ctrl', but that should be the only exception.

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I'll need to hard code the 'ctrl', but that should be the only exception.

In that case, I’d say only “control” is enough. “ctrl” is a small convenience which isn’t worth complicating over.

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Thinking about the arrow, there's a difference between arrow with hook and proper return symbol:

↩ - leftwards arrow with hook
⏎ - return symbol
⮐ - return left

I think I might need to add the return manually as well.

ctrl isn't a problem either, I'm mixing two unicode sources anyway :D

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That is so weird

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