Question on macros typing special chars [newbie]

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Hello, I’m stuck on a very simple use case. I suppose it could be a super silly question. I’m trying to add a simple macro to type some special characters in my case I wanted the German ß (Left Alt + 0223) on a windows machine. I had a look at the macro examples and tried Left Alt+Keypad 0, Left Alt+Keypad 2, Left Alt+Keypad 2 + Left Alt+Keypad 3. Is this the correct way to add this or do I need something else?

This is what I’ve tried (it results in nothing being printed)

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I have one mapping that runs macro 1 on simple S input to start with (wanted to add another screenshot but I’m not allowed). If I should add more input please let me know. Maybe as an addition, my windows is set to German with English INTL keyboard.

Thanks for your help.

Best regards.

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PS I got it working by changing my approach from trying to enter it using the ALT key and numpad to alt gr + s, but I’m still curious how his is supposed to be entered though.

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This works for me. You need a “pause” between the two 2s because otherwise they just look like one (2x longer) keypress.

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Thanks for the very quick reply.

Right I totally forgot about the step in between needed. It worked.

I figured out that on some programs the win+alt method actually doesn’t work, so I went back to using the ALT Right + S approach.