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Easy Accent

Introduction

Have you ever wondered why you can't enter international characters and special symbols in every Windows program as easily as you can in most word processors like Word for example? Maybe you're thinking now: "but what about using an international key map?". True, that is a possible solution, but one that I was not really satisfied with. Why? Well with an international key map you'll get an international letter every time you type an accent followed by a letter, even if this is not what you wanted. What if you wanted to type 'a good idea'? You'd get á good idea', obviously not what you'd want. The way to prevent this would be by typing a space between the accent and the letter and delete the space afterwards.

This is where Easy Accent comes in: it will let you enter international characters just as easily as you would in Word or Word Perfect but without all the silly problems that you get when using international key maps. You just hold down the CTRL key while typing an accent and a letter and presto!

 

Features

  • Very small and very simple
  • 2 keystrokes are enough
  • Can easily be turned on/off using tray icon
  • Completely configurable keystroke list

 

This program is donationware. If you really like and would like me to go on improving it you could send me $10 for example, but you are not in any way obliged to do so. Because Easy Accent is donationware it is full-featured and does not expire nor does it bother you with nag screens.

Disclaimer
Well, you probably know the drill: I won't be held responsible for any damages or loss of data that occur as the result of the use of this program. And so forth, and so forth, etcetera blah blah

 

Download

Easy Accent.zip (33.2KB)

 

Installation

Just extract the ZIP file to whatever directory you want and start the executable, from this moment on Easy Accent will automatically be started whenever Windows is started (unless that is not what you want after which you can just disable it in the options dialog which you can open by double clicking the tray icon).

 

History

Easy Accent's change history can be found here.

 

Known bugs

Doesn't work with certain programs like Outlook Express for example.

 

To Do

  • Store triggers in the registry as well.
  • Make a trigger editor in the properties dialog.
  • Make a real help file.
  • Add context help to properties dialog.
  • Make a real web page for the product