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T249072: Add support in toolbar for special characters within DiscussionTools

This new talk page topic editor no longer has the insert toolbar (with Latin, symbols, Greek, etc.) characters. Please put it back. -- 日本穣 Nihonjoe (talk) 19:33, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

hi @Nihonjoe – are you referring to the special characters toolbar pictured below? If so, then this is functionality we will be introducing soon. If you'd like, you can track our progress by following this Phabricator task: T249072.

Special characters toolbar

Thanks for the information. Okay then, how do I turn off the new editor and use the old one? I use that toolbar multiple times daily, and not having it makes things extremely difficult when I'm working on characters with macrons, umlauts, accents, and so on. -- 日本穣 Nihonjoe (talk) 23:03, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

I use that toolbar multiple times daily, and not having it makes things extremely difficult when I'm working on characters with macrons, umlauts, accents, and so on.

Understood!

Okay then, how do I turn off the new editor and use the old one?

1. Visit: Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing
2. Disable the "Enable quick topic adding" setting
3. ✅ That's it

Thanks! -- 日本穣 Nihonjoe (talk) 16:47, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

That ain't no good for anonymous user. And I mostly only need the line-break code, which does not occur by pressing Enter.

The good news is that the special character tool has become available in the reply and new topic tools in the meantime (unless you disable the toolbar, but doing so also requires logging in). Although I don’t know what line-break you’re speaking about, I don’t find a such thing in the special character toolbar of either the new topic tool or the edit toolbar of the legacy full-page editor (WikiEditor). (By the way, pressing Enter once indeed doesn’t create a line break indeed, as it has always been in wiki code. You need to press Enter twice to create a paragraph in unindented mode (new topic tool), one Enter works only in indented mode (reply tool).)

Still not returned, so sad!

What not returned? The special character tool has been available in DiscussionTools since November 2022. Did you actually check the tool before commenting here?