You need to use a backslash when working with unicode.

e.g. <code>defaults write com.apple.calculator NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add "Area\U2026" "^A"</code>

Thanks. I finally used this:

defaults write com.apple.finder NSUserKeyEquivalents '{"Secure Empty Trash"="@$~\U0008";}'

Unfortunately, entering \U0008 for delete directly in the property list editor or by editing the plain text com.apple.finder.plist did not work. So I had to do it in the terminal, which for some reason when I ran the above command removed all my previous shortcuts which I had entered in via the system prefs.

But now it works!

defaults write com.apple.finder NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add "Secure Empty Trash" "@$~\U0008"

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Tim Buchheim

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