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Special characters: add a search box
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Description
Your idea
Add a search function to the Special characters window.
See also, #23665.
Problem to be solved
This would make finding characters in the "Musical symbols" and "Unicode symbols" possible. At the moment it is almost impossible to find anything unless it is in the "Common" window, and this limits the usefulness of the SC palette.
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the Special characters window and review the related discussion in #23665. The work is complete when users can search for characters in the Musical symbols and Unicode symbols groups, not only the Common group.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100