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[ManaUser]

This is inspired by how MS Word does it. You press Ctrl and a key representing the accent symbol (`'^:~@,&/-$) then a litter. But I expanded it a little. The Ctrl+` modifier can be combined with several other keys to make various symbols, as can a few others. For instance Ctrl+/, previous only used for Ø also does ¼, ½ and ¾. Finally I added Ctrl+$ for currency symbols.

[afromonkey0]

That's a pretty neat implementation of an old idea. Nice and upgradable, and not many lines of code.
I use google docs now and i've been missing word's unicode characters, this works great. (I'm trying to add all of word's functionality to gdocs using AHK. could be here for a while )
I think i'll add in greek characters, i need them for physics notes.

[afromonkey0]

Well that didn't work.
Seems autohotkey can only read ANSI encoded scripts, and most greek letters are unicode.

[Laszlo]

You can use Unicode in AHK, just search the Forum. E.g. you can select them, copy to Clipboard, transform to UTF-8, process and send back Unicode (see one example here).