Accent Composer

What is Accent Composer?

Accent Composer is a keyboard utility that simplifies the process of typing characters, accents, and other special symbols in Windows programs. It allows you to enter any character in any program.

You no longer need to copy and paste from the Character Map app or insert Word Symbols option. No more decorating codes like Alt-0193.

You can also configure it to produce text snippets, text sections of any size, with similar key sequences.

Accent Composer works in any program, not just Word or other word processors, but also emails, web pages, spreadsheets, databases, and appointment schedules.

Accent Composer

Accent Composer allows you to create any Windows-supported character on any keyboard. To create a character or accent, simply press the designated "Compose" key (the alt right key by default) and then press the desired accent followed by the letter. For example, to produce the marked letter 'ñ' just press the "compose" key followed by '~' and 'n'.

Accent Composer is not limited to accented characters. For example, the copyright symbol can be produced with the "Compose", "c" and "o" keys, while the yen symbol can be created with "Compose", "=" and "Y".

Accent Composer is initially configured to produce more than 350 symbols and characters, including all accented Latin characters and all Greek characters. This allows you to easily type characters and accents in languages such as French, Spanish, Italian, German, Welsh, Gaelic, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Turkish, Portuguese and many other languages.

Unicode

You can also add any of the more than 65,000 characters defined in the Unicode standard. These include alphabets such as Cyrillic, Hebrew and Arabic, as well as ideograms and symbols of various Asian languages.

You must have a Unicode-enabled font in use to access these fonts, but standard Windows fonts such as Arial and Times New Roman contain thousands of characters. Microsoft Office users will have the Arial Unicode MS font with more than 50,000 characters. Other fonts can be found through WikiPedia's Unicode Typefaces page.

Text snippets

Another important feature that would save your typing time and effort is the "text snippets".

Accent Composer can now produce a text string of any length. For example, you can set Compose-a-d to produce your entire address.

How it works

Accent Composer places a small icon (a red Ace) in the Taskbar notification area near the watch and other utility icons.

When you press the "Compose" key, this icon changes color to let you know that Accent Composer is now capturing a composition sequence.

You can customize Accent Composer in a variety of ways

The hotkey can be chosen from 28 possible options, such as the right control key or Alt-F10. Composition sequences can also be changed to what is most memorable for you.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 or later (including Windows XP, 2003 Server, Vista, Windows 7, 8, and 10 [excluding new Windows Store style apps])

8Mb of hard disk space.