What is Reddit's opinion of WinCompose?

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Dica pra quem n tem o teclado em abnt pq mora na gringa/ comprou teclado us :

1 - Instale o WinCompose

2 - Configure uma tecla para ser a compose key. Eu uso o Alt Direito.

3 - ♢ + ‚ + c = ç [♢ é o simbolo da compose key]

Also: Set up a compose key (as right alt or caps lock or similar) in kde or gnome or linux terminal or windows http://wincompose.info/ so you can merge characters together compose + o + / = ø, use an international keyboard layout so you get dead keys ' e = é, ' space = ', use the chinese IME in english mode (with a registry hack to be on top of the dead key layout) so that you can use its asciimoji/characters menu, and add any characters you don't have as custom sequences in ~/.Xcompose or autohotkey. If you need anything that another language has, such as greek letters for mathᵉᵐᵃᵗⁱᶜs, install a phonetic layout for that language so you can type a for α, b for β.

My favorite way is to use WinCompose:

http://wincompose.info/

To type é for instances, you press the "compose key", then e then '.

You can choose whatever you want as the compose key. I like to use the shift lock key.

The problem you've got is that the keyboard (qmk) is only sending keycodes, the translation into the symbol to display happens in the OS.

I can only think of a couple of options:

• set your keyboard in the OS to a UK keyboard or some other country that has £ and €. The US International layout might also be possible.

• since you're using Windows you don't have Compose built in, but you could look at http://wincompose.info/

I've had a lot of luck with WinCompose, which lets you set a hotkey to activate it, and then uses a (fully customisable) list of combinations such as \e,'e,^e,-A, andc,` for è, é, ê, Ā, ç, respectively.

>Protip: install WinCompose for all your special character needs~

[Noted.](#rengethink)

>So like most genres and steps forward from a base, then?

Well, sure, when you put that way. I guess it's mostly just Gainax stuff, all pulling from shows the founders liked.

> [](#laughter)

Protip: install WinCompose for all your special character needs~

Wait. I should define some shortcuts for commentfaces... That would be smart.

> Yea, the mecha genre is completely inbred

So like most genres and steps forward from a base, then?

There is a tool called WinCompose (http://wincompose.info), that enables a composite key functionality. I have it set to the right Windows key (right Alt works as well). When I press the right Win key, I can then type " and a for ä, or double s for ß, or --. for — etc. (there's a list of valid combinations in the app).

u/MeganYayWooHoo, in case this doesn't make it on your Reddit home page, I thought I'd mention it: there's an easier way to em dash!

I like to use WinCompose, but if all you want is "---" to convert to "—", I created a thing called AutoDash which does exactly that for you.

Let me know what you think!

Could you not just type the character directly?

On Linux, with compose key: compose + c + c for caron-c.

Windows: via http://wincompose.info/ (or alt codes I can never remember).

Mac: option-v c (I think, untested)

Bonus: works outside of markdown

Orthographic restrictions can be a bit of a pain, that being said if you wanted a larger inventory for programmatic purposes there are ways around that. WinCompose or other compose-key software is nice, and rewrite rules creating digraphs (or more complex multigraphs) are always usable once that's done to get to something more resembling Latin text (as, while 1:1 correspondence is really nice when interacting with dumb computers, reading and writing can have far more nuance in the pursuit of ease and aesthetics).

Either way, the big thing here is that, at least from my perspective, you appear to have eliminated most of the pronunciation hitches at this point. The major theme that I tried to get across in my post (and may have failed in doing) is that examining the phototactics from a categorical perspective and then ironing out the kinks usually results in a far lower amount of time in getting things up to snuff than tackling things piecemeal, and makes communicating the essence of the language's sound much more clear.

Also:

SharpKeys - Remap keys on your keyboard.

Windows Terminal - If you do development, this is an MS provided terminal with tabs that supports CMD, Powershell, and WSL all integrated together, with a surprising level of customization. No clue why they don't promote it anywhere, it's better than MS's default terminal programs.

WinCompose - The best way to type special characters in Windows, copied from Linux's compose key. Also a much better use of the Caps Lock key.

On Windows just get [WinCompose](http://wincompose.info/ and use compose key sequences for all sorts of crazy characters. I have no idea why this still hasn't been baked in to Windows 10 yet, Unix systems have had it for years.

all of you guys without a compose key make me sad. it’s so much more than useful. META-E-` gives me È. I run linux, which supports it natively, but for windows there’s http://wincompose.info. it’s life changing man

WinCompose is the easiest way. I would suggest setting up your caps lock key as your "compose key" (assuming you don't normally use caps lock). Then to type à, for instance, you type <compose key>, then backtick (`), then a.

Those seem pretty common character combinations. How do you type aerial without it turning into ærial? or, say, you want to list some emoji, and “emoji: 🍕🍔🍟” turns into “emojï”. Do I misunderstand how this expansion works? This has a potential to be extremely annoying.

Why not just use a compose key? On Linux those are native, on Windows you can use this for the same setup. Mac users typically stay with their Option shortcuts.

You can use WinCompose.

It defines key sequences for many Unicode characters using a Compose key, and lets you define your own. It also has a "Extended Unicode input" option, where you type <compose> U 1 A 3 F for U+1A3F.

So have you used a git repository in a programming context before?

A “fork” is a copy of an existing repository that you have full administrative permissions for. It’s not 100% necessary, as you can achieve a similar effect with a “branch” on the same repo, but it can make working on an open source project a tad easier.

If you want to make things easier on yourself, I suggest looking into WinCompose instead.

http://wincompose.info

It lets you customize keyboard shortcuts to output strings of Unicode characters. You could then use Oryx and Wally to do all the mapping and flashing, but assigning keys that you’d never use for anything else. WinCompose lets you set a specific “compose” key that it watches for, which you could assign to F24 or something.

You may want to look into the compose key. On Linux this is natively supported, Windows and OS X need extra software to make it happen. Without using a German keyboard layout I can get ä, ö, ü in lowercase or caps (Ä). Also ß is available. As others have said if that isn't available to you, then adding an e afterwards is fine.