I know the standard way of using autohotkey to create standard ASCII
characters.

For example, both

^!5::Send, {ASC 0176} and
::#%%::{ASC 0176}

will produce the degrees symbol.

The problem is that a program I'm using (the Google toolbar search in
Firefox) reacts to these as though an Alt+number key combo were
actually pressed.

Can someone suggest an alternative. Perhaps a way to store th
character itself co AHK and copy and paste it?

Thanks

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