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WinCompose

WinCompose supports the standard Compose file format.

Free Open Source
Windows

WinCompose supports the standard Compose file format. It provides more than 1600 compose rules from the Xorg project and the dotXCompose project. You can add custom rules by creating a file named .XCompose or .XCompose.txt in your %USERPROFILE% directory.

WinCompose supports rules of more than 2 characters such as ? Compose ( 3 ) for ?.

WinCompose supports early exits. For instance, ? Compose & will immediately type & because there is currently no rule starting with &. More Info »

As of now, WinCompose is fully translated in Dutch, French, Greek, Russian and Swedish, and partially translated in Czech, German and Indonesian. You can help us translate it to more languages using the Weblate project:

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WinCompose was added by grendelkhan in Oct 2014 and the latest update was made in Mar 2017. The list of alternatives was updated Dec 2017 There is a history of all activites on WinCompose in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on WinCompose or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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Comment by ludeq

about WinCompose · Mar 2017 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

simple and powerfull way to insert special characters

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Comment by Feliz

about WinCompose · Mar 2017 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

It allows me to easily type siimple (and not so simple) characters on Windows that is deficient on this point

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