Stephen Meech

According to https://www.alt-codes.net/ and other sources, ALT-183 is "╖". "À" is ALT-0192. Does that work for you? I see you've been reporting this [problem](https://github.com/espanso/espanso/issues/988#issuecomment-1206777014) for a while!

It appears to be hard-coded [here](https://github.com/espanso/espanso/blob/4e6839c4fa4bb1325d38a5b434dcbc4a61289533/espanso-engine/src/process/middleware/alt_code_synthesizer.rs#L115), but it looks as though there is provision for CP1252. One for the devs.

I'm still puzzling over your problem. Although my `includes:` work fine (Linux Mint 21.2, Xfce), while exploring the issue I find I can't demonstrate a difference between that and `extra_includes:`....

The flashing/extraneous window in Wayland is a well documented bug. Have you tried the [`force_mode:`](https://espanso.org/docs/matches/basics/#injection-mechanism) options on your expansions?

Is #919 any help?

Thank you for checking and publishing your workaround. We'll keep this open.

Is the macOS solution just added to #721 any help?

Just trying to help, and thought it might be useful. I agree, it needs to be fixed.

https://github.com/espanso/espanso/blob/c4b3d5ae279807ce1fd146e1219aa063685c021a/espanso-modulo/src/sys/search/search.cpp#L33-45 defines it, but again by OS, specified with different codes this time. As I feared - there may be multiple places where the code specifies Windows, macOS and Linux,...

Espanso only works with text typed in at the keyboard. What you're seeing above is your regex is being triggered by the text `:force()`, where the "" is the \...