Want a way to type special characters (like "ô") easily

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mike said:
That one's not quite what I want - I liked AllChars not so much for the
cdharacter set, but the macros? automated typing? whatever you call it;
either awkward password strings, or lumps of text for entering into various
boxes time after time.
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Not sure what you mean here...

You can configure TWI to enter whatever text you want on whatever
keypress; it is not behaviour I need most of the time, but I hate the
'insert' key so much I have mapped it to, er, insert my email addy. It
works in any app I have tried it on to date.

AllChars is wonderful; I've not looked at Shortkeys... I will now.
 
or when a particular character set in an application is current.
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You seem to have misunderstood. Limitations are not imposed by the
applications in use (unless they don't receive input from keyboard
buffer?); it is the typeface (misnamed "font" in computer-ese) that is
the determinant: Allchars nor any other typographical character
generator can produce what does not exist.
 
J44xm said:
That sounds intriguing, but how would it know that I don't want to
actually type "^o"?
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That is called the "dead keys" effect. It exits in earlier versions
of Windows, too: The so-called OS is designed to wait for the _second_
press of certain keys before generating a character. PITA. For example,
if one wants the carat, to use your example, one presses the key twice;
the first keypress is assumed to be first character of a combination.
There exists some means of defeating this particularly annoying
"feature" but I forgets what that might be....
 
That is called the "dead keys" effect. It exits in earlier
versions
of Windows, too: The so-called OS is designed to wait for the _second_
press of certain keys before generating a character. PITA. For
example, if one wants the carat, to use your example, one presses the
key twice; the first keypress is assumed to be first character of a
combination. There exists some means of defeating this particularly
annoying "feature" but I forgets what that might be....
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The best is to have two kinds of "keyboards layouts" you can switch
between. I have normal US which corresponds to my keyboard and then when
I press alt+leftshift I get the US-International one, which allows me
all vowels with any kind of accent. If you keep this last option only
then you have to get use and be careful, because when you press ^+o you
will get always "ô", in order to break the key combination you need to
press the space bar key between "^" and "o" and you will get "^o".

Still I think this is better than installing an extra program, specially
if you only need accented vowels.

BTW, I found the article in PCmag, here is the link:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1585427,00.asp
 
Thanks for the clarification. What you describe is far more
sensible than and certainly an improvement over my (only) experience
with Win98.
 
You can configure TWI to enter whatever text you want on whatever
keypress; it is not behaviour I need most of the time, but I hate the
'insert' key so much I have mapped it to, er, insert my email addy. It
works in any app I have tried it on to date.

AllChars is wonderful; I've not looked at Shortkeys... I will now.
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I guess I'm a bit stupid; I can't see how to do it - I've put text instead
of commands in the box, but I can't get the hotkeys to work.

I think I'll stick with one of the others,

mike
 
mike said:
I guess I'm a bit stupid; I can't see how to do it - I've put text instead
of commands in the box, but I can't get the hotkeys to work.
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It is the 'type characters into window' command.

Just under 'type alt+xxx...'
 
rondkopf said:
The best is to have two kinds of "keyboards layouts" you can switch
between. I have normal US which corresponds to my keyboard and then
when I press alt+leftshift I get the US-International one, which
allows me all vowels with any kind of accent. If you keep this last
option only then you have to get use and be careful, because when you
press ^+o you will get always "ô", in order to break the key
combination you need to press the space bar key between "^" and "o"
and you will get "^o".

Still I think this is better than installing an extra program,
specially if you only need accented vowels.

BTW, I found the article in PCmag, here is the link:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1585427,00.asp
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Note: the US-International Keyboard layout enables you to create:

+ International characters (e.g. accented vowels)
With the "dead keys" method, as mentioned above and elsewhere
+ Extended characters
With the right ALT key in combination with other keys
e.g.: right ALT key + 7 creates the 1/2 character

See MS Knowledge Base Article 306560
<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306560>
 
J44xm said:
I'd like an easy way to type characters that don't have assigned keys on
the keyboard, such as an "o" with a circumflex (ô). I needn't say (but
apparently will regardless) that opening Character Map or doing Alt+0244
(for "ô") is troublesome.

So is there some program that, I suppose, will watch typed text and
replace customizable code strings with a special character? For example,
typing ;o^; might make an "ô." Thanks.
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Have a look at ALLCHARS:
http://allchars.zwolnet.com

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Frank Bohan
¶ If you want to enter the Gates, you have to pay the Bill.
 
You may also change the keyboard (input locales, under Regional
Settings) to Eglish US International. You can then type "^O" and get
"ô".
If yoy only want to type "^" you press the "^" key followed by the
spacebar.

/luigi


Have a look at ALLCHARS:
http://allchars.zwolnet.com

===

Frank Bohan
¶ If you want to enter the Gates, you have to pay the Bill.
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