v0.5

Author: Cyrille37

README.md

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+# indicator-chars
+
+Original author: Tobias Schlitt <toby@php.net>
+This fork: Cyrille37 <cyrille37@gmail.com>
+
+App indicator to provide a menu with (potentially funny UTF-8) characters for simple copying them to clipboard (similar to original characters applet).
+
+Create a file .indicator-chars in your home directory with lines of characters to be selectable.
+
+## Install
+
+- Checkout source code
+
+- Create ~/.indicator-chars (from `conf-example.indicator-chars` file)
+  - Each row corresponds to a set of chars
+    - Optional submenu title prefix: `[title]`
+    - remove any unused spaces
+  - Make sure to use UTF-8 encoding
+- Put indicator-chars.py into `auto start`.
+
+## Open issues
+
+- could not find a solution for this error:
+```
+(indicator-chars.py:14354): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 10:45:20.374:
+ gdk_window_thaw_toplevel_updates:
+ assertion 'window->update_and_descendants_freeze_count > 0' failed
+```
+
+# Changes
+
+Cyrille37's fork:
+
+2025-06-10
+
+- reworked the parser with a single regex
+- removed non standard unicode chars
+- change readme from RST to Markdown
+
+2021-01-25
+
+  - Python 3 and Gtk 3, tested on Ubuntu 21.10 with MATE desktop
+  - `sudo apt-get install gir1.2-appindicator3`
+
+2016-02-03
+
+- Some changes to make indicator-chars works on Ubuntu 12.04LTS with Unity 2D
+- replace the custom icon with a theme icon name
+- add a char copy into Clipboard(selection="CLIPBOARD")
+- use env shebang to find the Python3 engine
+- add a configuration file example: "conf-example.indicator-chars"
+
+## Notes
+
+### Unicode / UTF-8
+
+Some non standard chars are present at https://www.amp-what.com/unicode/search/
+
+Some standard sources
+- https://unicodeplus.com
+- https://unicode-explorer.com
+
+**Caractères originaux**
+
+- La chaîne `s = 'a😞⚠️❓⁉️☠️🌈'` contient des **caractères mal formés** :
+  - `😞` est en fait **`U+1F61E`** (Disappointed Face), le code l'interprète comme `U+1F61E` (ce qui est correct).
+  - `⚠️` est en réalité **`U+26A0` (⚠) + `U+FE0F` (Variation Selector-16)**, ce qui n'est pas un emoji standard. Cela explique la présence de `U+FE0F` (VS16).
+  - `❓` est **`U+2753`** (Black Question Mark Ornament), le code l'interprète comme `U+2753` (correct).
+  - `⁉️` est **`U+2049` (Exclamation Question Mark) + `U+FE0F`** (VS16), ce qui n'est pas un emoji standard.
+  - `☠️` est **`U+2620` (Skull and Bones) + `U+FE0F`** (VS16).
+  - `🌈` est **`U+1F308`** (Rainbow), correct.
+
+**Nettoyage et normalisation**
+
+- Le nettoyage élimine les caractères de contrôle (comme `U+FE0F`), mais `U+FE0F` n'est pas une **catégorie Cc** (contrôle), il est de catégorie **Me** (Mark, Enclosing) ou **Sk** (Symbol, Modifier). Ainsi, il n'est **pas supprimé** par le nettoyage.
+- La normalisation `NFKC` ne supprime pas `U+FE0F`.
+
+**Résultat final**
+
+- La chaîne contient des **caractères non standard** comme `U+FE0F` (VS16).
+
+**Solution**
+
+Pour corriger le problème, vous devez :
+1. **Utiliser des emojis standard** (sans VS16).
+2. **Éviter les combinaisons non standard**.

README.rst

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+’«»💌😩
 [letters]ÀÇÈÉŒ
-[signs]’ ⋅«»”“×ø²¼½¾≠≤≥…™©®—¿
+[signs]’ ⋅«»”“×╳ø²¼½¾≠≤≥…™©®—¿
 [arrows]↑←→⇕⇙⇓⇘⇒⇔⇐⇖⇑⇗
 [ok]✅✗💌🦄🤟👌🤩😘😉😜😂🍺💐🌻🪻🍀🌈🐝🚀⭐✨
-[fail]😞😩😤⚠️⛔🚷❌❓☠️💣🙊⏳📢
-
+[fail]😞😩😤⛔🚷❌❓💣☠🕱⏳📢

conf-example.indicator-chars

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 from gi.repository import Gtk as gtk, Gdk, GLib, GObject, Gio as gio
 
 APP_NAME = 'indicator-chars'
-APP_VERSION = '0.3'
+APP_VERSION = '0.4'
 
 class IndicatorChars:
     CHARS_PATH = os.path.join(os.getenv('HOME'), '.indicator-chars')
     SCRIPT_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
 
-    submenu_title_pattern = re.compile(r'\[([^]]+)\] *')
-    description_pattern = re.compile(r' *(\([^)]+\)) *')
+    line_pattern = re.compile(r'^(\[(.*)\])?(.*)$')
 
     def __init__(self):
         self.ind = appindicator.Indicator.new(
@@ -99,34 +98,30 @@ def update_menu(self, widget = None, data = None):
         menu = gtk.Menu()
 
         for charLine in charDef:
-            charLine = str(charLine).strip()
+            charLine = charLine.strip()
             if charLine == '' :
             	continue
-            submenu_match = self.submenu_title_pattern.match(charLine)
-            if submenu_match:
-                submenu_title = submenu_match.group(1)
-                # remove title part from remainder:
-                charLine = charLine[submenu_match.end():]
-            else:
-                submenu_title = ''.join(
-                    self.description_pattern.split(charLine)[::2])
-            parentItem = self.create_menu_item(submenu_title)
-            subMenu = gtk.Menu()
-            while charLine:
-                char = charLine[0]
-                charLine = charLine[1:]
-                description_match = self.description_pattern.match(charLine)
-                if description_match:
-                    item_title = char + ' ' + description_match.group(1)
-                    # remove description part from remainder:
-                    charLine = charLine[description_match.end():]
-                else:
-                    item_title = char
-                subItem = self.create_menu_item(item_title)
-                subItem.connect("activate", self.on_char_click, char)
-                subMenu.append(subItem)
-            parentItem.set_submenu(subMenu)
-            menu.append(parentItem)
+            result = self.line_pattern.search(charLine)
+            if not result :
+                print('ERROR:','bad line format')
+                continue
+            if result.group(2) :
+                #print('-> in a sub-menu')
+                submenu_title = result.group(2)
+                parentItem = self.create_menu_item(submenu_title)
+                menu.append(parentItem)
+                subMenu = gtk.Menu()
+                parentItem.set_submenu(subMenu)
+                for char in list(result.group(3)) :
+                    subItem = self.create_menu_item(char)
+                    subItem.connect("activate", self.on_char_click, char)
+                    subMenu.append(subItem)
+            else :
+                #print('-> in main-menu')
+                for char in list(result.group(3)) :
+                    subMenu = self.create_menu_item(char)
+                    subMenu.connect("activate", self.on_char_click, char)
+                    menu.append(subMenu)
 
         menu.append(gtk.SeparatorMenuItem())
         quit_item = self.create_menu_item('Quit')