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Yes, I was so sad when I "upgraded" from Atari to Windows and I could no longer do this. That it's still not standard is a mystery. It wasn't standard on Atari
by Moru 5y ago
Yes, I was so sad when I "upgraded" from Atari to Windows and I could no longer do this. That it's still not standard is a mystery.
It wasn't standard on Atari either but that it even was a thing 30 odd years ago shows yet again that we're not always as innovative as we think.
- __d 5y agoYou might find http://wincompose.info/ http://wincompose.info/ helpful: it adds this functionality to Windows.
- Moru 5y agoThankyou! I wonder if there is some patent stopping this from being included in windows by default...
- hackmiester 5y agoMicrosoft Word does have compose, sort of(?). control+apostrophe followed by e results in é, for instance. I have no idea why it isn’t OS wide. It works some other places, but not all.
- _carbyau_ 5y agoWindows most everywhere: Hold ALT while typing the Extended ASCII number for a character on the numpad (not the row of numbers above the letters) results in that char. For é: Hold Alt while typing 130 on numpad. TIL, apparently this can be extended to unicode too. https://superuser.com/questions/1024948/windows-10-alt-code-results-in-wrong-character https://superuser.com/questions/1024948/windows-10-alt-code-...