wincompose VS QuickLook

Compare wincompose vs QuickLook and see what are their differences.

QuickLook

Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature to Windows (by QL-Win)
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wincompose QuickLook
134 69
2,500 16,191
- 2.0%
6.1 3.6
about 1 month ago 12 days ago
C# C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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wincompose

Posts with mentions or reviews of wincompose. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.
  • "ç" majuscule
    2 projects | /r/france | 10 Dec 2023
    Touche compose. Natif sous linux, et sous windows : https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose
  • Victor Mono Typeface
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Nov 2023
    Julia has made symbol input manageable and lets you define infix operators for many of the Unicode symbols that make sense for that. [1] And JuliaMono was designed to support the symbols that Julia does. [2]

    I generally do quite fine with my Compose Key configuration, though (even on Windows, where I use WinCompose). [3]

    [1]: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/unicode-input/

    [2]: https://juliamono.netlify.app/

    [3]: https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose

  • Hyphens, minus, and dashes in Debian man pages
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Nov 2023
    On Windows, I use http://wincompose.info/ for all my special-character needs (and use the system compose key on Linux).
  • Czysta prawda
    1 project | /r/Polska | 10 Jul 2023
    na windowsa jest sobie WinCompose
  • bach - a tool for searching compose sequences
    2 projects | /r/rust | 2 Jul 2023
    Credit to wincompose's GUI for inspiration, which provides similar functionality on Windows.
  • Writing Prettier Haskell with Unicode Syntax and Vim
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jun 2023
    I’ve previously used a nice little tool called WinCompose for exactly that. Looks like it’s still going:

    http://wincompose.info/

  • Stress over words
    1 project | /r/interlingue | 13 Jun 2023
    Malgré to, yo recomanda WinCompose o simil si tu es in Windows.
  • What's the difference between perché and perchè???
    1 project | /r/italianlearning | 13 Jun 2023
  • How do you write a character not present in unicode?
    1 project | /r/linguistics | 18 May 2023
    I use WinCompose which gives me the same compose-key functionality that's built into Linux. I've chosen one key on my keyboard to be the Compose key (I use Right-Alt, but you can pick any key that's convenient). Then I can type
  • World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthrough in energy density
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Apr 2023
    Assuming you are on desktop/laptop:

    The long-winded way is to use your OS's character map tool: find the glyph you want there and copy+paste. Under Windows 10+ there is the emoji keyboard (hit [win]+;) which also gives access to much more including super-/sub- script characters, which is a little more convenient than character map. Presumably other OSs have similar available too.

    Better is to have support for a compose key sequence. Usually build in to Linux & similar, you just might have to find the setting to turn it on and configure what your compose key is. Under Windows I use http://wincompose.info/ and there are a couple of similar tools out there. In any case it is useful for more than super- and sub-scripts: accented characters & similar (áàäæçffñ), some fractions (¼,½,¾), other symbols (°∞™®↑↓←→‽¡¿⸘♥⋘»‱), and configurable too so you can make what you use most easiest to access (and if you are really sad like me you can do something https://xkcd.com/2583/ to type hallelujah too!).

QuickLook

Posts with mentions or reviews of QuickLook. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-30.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing wincompose and QuickLook you can also consider the following projects:

AutoHotkey - AutoHotkey - macro-creation and automation-oriented scripting utility for Windows.

PowerToys - Windows system utilities to maximize productivity

sharpkeys - SharpKeys is a utility that manages a Registry key that allows Windows to remap one key to any other key.

SylphyHorn - Virtual Desktop Tools for Windows 10.

qmk_configurator - The QMK Configurator

linux

9ime - Plan 9's unicode input method ported to windows

qView - Practical and minimal image viewer

espanso - Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust

AutoEq - Automatic headphone equalization from frequency responses

Windows10Debloater - Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware.