Allchars -- Type "Strange" Characters Easily
Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 at 9:48 PM by Randall
If you regularly have to type "strange" characters not on your keyboard in Windows and do not want to use a complex, full-featured macro program like AutoHotKey, Allchars may be just what you need.
From the Allchars web site:
AllChars provides a quick, easy-to-remember way of creating accents like é Ü ç î æ and special characters like ƒ ² ‰ © £ ± ß ° 1/2 ¿ « » ™ „ in most Windows programs.
AllChars emulates the *nix Compose key on Windows.
AllChars v3.5 upwards supports macros: type a (short) name and AllChars will replace it with a (long) text.
AllChars is very easy and intuitive in usage and it is possible to adapt it to your wishes.
AllChars is FREEWARE.
AllChars works with Windows 3.11 or Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, and XP.
To use Allchars you press (but don't hold) the control key, then press two additional characters> Allchars use those two characters to determine which character to insert. For example, press control (and then release it), then type ' followed by e and you'll get é or press control, then 1 and then 2 and you'll get ½. This sure beats bringing up the Character Map utility in Windows. I will not trade the power and scope of AutoHotKey for Allchars, but Allcharsdoes what it does well and does it out of the box -- no coding macros needed..
Rating: 4.0 Stars
Operating System: Windows 95+ (an
older version works with Windows 3.11)
License: Open Source
Price:
Free
Version Reviewed: 3.6.2
Web Site: http://allchars.zwolnet.com/index.html