I was reminded that ALT+UNICODE (decimal) inputs characters into
Windows (...)
Wrong statement here: ALT+decimal is supported in keyboard drivers but
is limited to enter ONLY decimal values between 1 and 255. This value
can be entered and will be interpreted in two ways:
In Windows standard keyboard drivers, there's no integrated support to
enter Unicode codepoints transparently in all applications.
I've written a small Windows (NT/2K/XP) keyboard layout that at least
allows you to enter most accented Latin characters easily using dead
keys. I use this for transliteration because I was fed up with
memorizing stuff like U+0138. It's not complete, but it supports a fair
set of accents. It should be sufficient for most European languages as
well as Slavic and Middle Eastern languages. You can have a look at it
here: http://tinyurl.com/2aeja (if you don't mind the article being in
German :))
Note that it's based on my native German keyboard layout so far, but I
could probably produce another version for English (or French or
whatever), if there's sufficient interest. I've got a tool lying around
to convert these to Keyman keyboards as well, if you need to use them
with Toolbox or with Word under Windows 98/ME.
There is another for transliterated input of Unicode Arabic and one for
Unicode Cyrillic. Both cover pretty much all of the respective Unicode
ranges. Again, both are based on German layouts, but if there's
sufficient interest, I can produce other version.
Philipp
--
Ha ha! That doesn't work this time! A sense of
crushing defeat envelops you.
- http://tinyurl.com/2j8rr
