diff --git a/VisualEditor.hooks.php b/VisualEditor.hooks.php
index 27ae9d9c9d..13f59dcc58 100644
--- a/VisualEditor.hooks.php
+++ b/VisualEditor.hooks.php
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ class VisualEditorHooks {
 	public static function onContentHandlerDefaultModelFor( Title $title, &$model ) {
 		$messages = array(
 			'Visualeditor-cite-tool-definition.json',
-			'Visualeditor-specialcharinspector-characterlist-insert'
+			'Visualeditor-quick-access-characters.json'
 		);
 
 		if ( $title->inNamespace( NS_MEDIAWIKI ) && in_array( $title->getText(), $messages ) ) {
diff --git a/VisualEditor.php b/VisualEditor.php
index 60d692d7f3..3f2dab3927 100644
--- a/VisualEditor.php
+++ b/VisualEditor.php
@@ -322,6 +322,10 @@ $wgResourceModules += array(
 			'ext.visualEditor.targetLoader',
 			'jquery.uls.data',
 		),
+		'messages' => array(
+			'visualeditor-quick-access-characters.json',
+			'visualeditor-special-characters-group-other'
+		),
 		'targets' => array( 'desktop', 'mobile' ),
 	),
 
@@ -772,7 +776,6 @@ $wgResourceModules += array(
 			'visualeditor-slug-insert',
 			'visualeditor-specialcharacter-button-tooltip',
 			'visualeditor-specialcharacterinspector-title',
-			'visualeditor-specialcharinspector-characterlist-insert',
 			'visualeditor-table-caption',
 			'visualeditor-table-delete-col',
 			'visualeditor-table-delete-row',
diff --git a/extension.json b/extension.json
index e47424f594..66d7fdb67c 100644
--- a/extension.json
+++ b/extension.json
@@ -384,6 +384,10 @@
 			"styles": [
 				"modules/ve-mw/init/styles/ve.init.mw.Target.css"
 			],
+			"messages": [
+				"visualeditor-quick-access-characters.json",
+				"visualeditor-special-characters-group-other"
+			],
 			"dependencies": [
 				"jquery.byteLength",
 				"jquery.client",
@@ -821,7 +825,6 @@
 				"visualeditor-slug-insert",
 				"visualeditor-specialcharacter-button-tooltip",
 				"visualeditor-specialcharacterinspector-title",
-				"visualeditor-specialcharinspector-characterlist-insert",
 				"visualeditor-table-caption",
 				"visualeditor-table-delete-col",
 				"visualeditor-table-delete-row",
diff --git a/modules/ve-mw/i18n/en.json b/modules/ve-mw/i18n/en.json
index cadb404a81..8829490e45 100644
--- a/modules/ve-mw/i18n/en.json
+++ b/modules/ve-mw/i18n/en.json
@@ -316,5 +316,6 @@
 	"visualeditor-viewpage-savewarning-title": "Are you sure?",
 	"visualeditor-wikitext-warning": "You are using VisualEditor - [[{{MediaWiki:visualeditor-wikitext-warning-link}}|wikitext]] does not work here. To switch to source editing at any time without losing your changes, open the dropdown menu next to \"{{int:visualeditor-toolbar-savedialog}}\" and select \"{{int:visualeditor-mweditmodesource-title}}\".",
 	"visualeditor-wikitext-warning-link": "mediawikiwiki:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Formatting",
-	"visualeditor-wikitext-warning-title": "Wikitext markup detected"
+	"visualeditor-wikitext-warning-title": "Wikitext markup detected",
+	"visualeditor-special-characters-group-other": "Often used"
 }
diff --git a/modules/ve-mw/i18n/qqq.json b/modules/ve-mw/i18n/qqq.json
index 93690f2c2b..92292abae5 100644
--- a/modules/ve-mw/i18n/qqq.json
+++ b/modules/ve-mw/i18n/qqq.json
@@ -325,5 +325,6 @@
 	"visualeditor-viewpage-savewarning-title": "Title of the dialog shown when the user tries to leave the editor without saving their changes.\n\nFollowed by the following buttons:\n* {{msg-mw|Visualeditor-viewpage-savewarning-discard}}\n* {{msg-mw|Visualeditor-viewpage-savewarning-keep}}\n{{Identical|Are you sure?}}",
 	"visualeditor-wikitext-warning": "Contents of notification displayed when Wikitext has been detected.\n\nRefers to:\n* {{msg-mw|Visualeditor-wikitext-warning-link}}\n* {{msg-mw|Visualeditor-toolbar-cancel}}\n* {{msg-mw|Visualeditor-mweditmodesource-title}}\nSee also:\n* {{msg-mw|Visualeditor-beta-warning}}",
 	"visualeditor-wikitext-warning-link": "Link to page describing what Wikitext is.\n\nUsed in:\n* {{msg-mw|Visualeditor-wikitext-warning}}.\n\nTranslate to a title where most wikis in the language you're translating to have one such help page; if they don't have one, you can use [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Formatting]] as target.",
-	"visualeditor-wikitext-warning-title": "Title of notification displayed when Wikitext has been detected"
+	"visualeditor-wikitext-warning-title": "Title of notification displayed when Wikitext has been detected",
+	"visualeditor-special-characters-group-other": "Label of the special character group shown if the wiki has visualeditor-quick-access-characters.json set up."
 }
diff --git a/modules/ve-mw/init/ve.init.mw.Platform.js b/modules/ve-mw/init/ve.init.mw.Platform.js
index ab68e06661..fafe80055f 100644
--- a/modules/ve-mw/init/ve.init.mw.Platform.js
+++ b/modules/ve-mw/init/ve.init.mw.Platform.js
@@ -114,7 +114,19 @@ ve.init.mw.Platform.prototype.getUserLanguages = function () {
  */
 ve.init.mw.Platform.prototype.fetchSpecialCharList = function () {
 	var characters = {},
+		otherGroupName = mw.msg( 'visualeditor-special-characters-group-other' ),
+		otherMsg = mw.msg( 'visualeditor-quick-access-characters.json' ),
 		groupObject;
+
+	if ( otherMsg !== '<visualeditor-quick-access-characters.json>' ) {
+		try {
+			characters[otherGroupName] = JSON.parse( otherMsg );
+		} catch ( err ) {
+			ve.log( 've.init.mw.Platform: Could not parse the Special Character list.' );
+			ve.log( err );
+		}
+	}
+
 	$.each( mw.language.specialCharacters, function ( groupName, groupCharacters ) {
 		groupObject = {}; // key is label, value is char to insert
 		$.each( groupCharacters, function ( charKey, charVal ) {