AutoHotkey Community

[ManaUser]

I've seen alot of different accent scripts recently, and they all work different ways. So I thought it would be interesting to know which way people like best. I would especially like to hear your thoughts if you actually use something like this regularly. It doesn't necessarily have to be an AutoHotkey script either, I'm just wondering what implementation is most convenient for people.

[Laszlo]

It depends on, how often do you need ä. After trying many different ideas I settled to the following three methods (different method for different characters):

1. Pressing ScrollLock changes the keyboard layout, so the numbers raw contains the most often used diacritics. This is the preferred method if you need “ä” very often.

2. Define hotstrings, like