AutoHotkey Community

[Ethan]

I'm not sure if a script like this has already been posted. I just noticed the umlaut script, but that is not really quite the same thing. Anyway, this is a relatively simple script that adds Word-style hotkeys for accents and a few other things using the windows key and keys that look vaguely like accent marks for the shortcuts (I find the windows key rarely is used for other hotkeys, so there's no problem with disabling something I want in some program). What I mean by word-style hotkeys are ones where you hit a hotkey for an accent type, such as acute, then the next key, be it e, a, i or whatever that takes an acute accent will have one. This script accomplishes this by having hotkeys for a, e, i, o, u, c and n, which are disabled most of the time. Hitting any of the accent hotkeys enables them and and sets a variable to the desired type of accent.
I hope this is helpful to people. I also have a few other common character hotkeys with the Win key in the beginning, feel free to take just use whatever bits of the code you want, and/or add characters and accents.