WinCompose – A Compose Key for Windows

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  • wincompose

    🔣 Compose Key for Windows

  • Fun fact, WinCompose used to be written in AutoHotkey. It's still shown as a branch on GitHub: https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose/tree/autohotkey

  • Scoop

    A command-line installer for Windows.

  • Unfortunately scoop stopped being maintained. See https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/issues/3393

  • WorkOS

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  • 9ime

    Plan 9's unicode input method ported to windows

  • Being a plan 9 nerd, I originally found 9ime [1] when I wanted a compose key in windows. It serves the same purpose and has the same default compose key of right-Alt. I’ve yet to be frustrated by it enough to switch to wincompose (but the UX is certainly better).

    [1] https://github.com/sqweek/9ime

  • xkeyboard-config

    Discontinued XKB data.

  • I use capslock.

    There are a number of popular choices that come preconfigured, see file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst line 851

    https://github.com/freedesktop/xkeyboard-config/blob/master/...

  • Conkey

    A keyboard layout for conlangers

  • Scoop-Core

    Shovel. Alternative, more advanced, and user-friendly implementation of windows command-line installer scoop.

  • Shovel, a fork of scoop, is being maintained however. https://github.com/Ash258/Scoop-Core

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