Accent Composer

Accent Composer lets you create any character supported by Windows on any keyboard. To create an accented character simply press the designated 'Compose' key (the right-hand Alt key by default), then press the desired accent mark followed by the letter. For example, to produce the accented letter 'ñ' just press the Compose key followed by '~' and 'n'.

Accent Composer is not limited to accented characters. For instance, the copyright symbol, ©, can be produced with the keystrokes 'Compose', 'c' and 'o', while the Yen symbol ¥ can be created with 'Compose', 'Y' and '='.

Accent Composer is initially set up to work with Windows' standard fonts. It can also be customized to produce any character that is included in one of the fonts installed on your computer. So if you regularly write in, say, Turkish, you can setup Accent Composer to produce the special accented characters in your existing Turkish font. You can find out more about how Accent Composer works with your fonts here.

Accent Composer places a small icon on the Taskbar notification area (also called the tray or system area), next to the clock and other utility icons. When you press the Compose key this icon changes colour to let you know Accent Composer is now trapping a compose sequence.

You can customize Accent Composer in many ways. The hotkey can be picked from 28 possible choices, such as the right Alt key or Alt-F10. The compose sequences can also be changed to whatever is most memorable for you.

To see a screen-shot of the Accent Composer options dialog, click here. This also shows the Accent Composer icon (the red Á) in the system tray.

Download

You can download a demo version of the latest Accent Composer from here.

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System Requirements

• Microsoft Windows 98/Windows NT 4 or later (including Windows ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista)
• 0.7Mb disk space