I was reminded that ALT+UNICODE (decimal) inputs characters intoWindows (...)
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
