On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 13:56:43 +0000, Ed Cryer
wrote:

Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Sat, 07 Mar 2015 23:15:28 +0000, Ed Cryer wrote:

Gene E. Bloch wrote:
SNIP

Well, I admit to having used a similar method for years. I keep a
Notepad file handy, which I call AccentKeys, and it contains many things.
This is it in its entirety;

SNIP

Since it's a bespoke file that you created for your own purposes and
since you apparently make much use of it, I suspect your searches for
characters are much quicker than mine :-)

But as Ken intimated, my use of special characters is "seldom". It's too
limited to worry much about the inefficiency.

If that changes I'll change my methods.


I used to correspond quite a lot in Spanish and French. I'd use the Win
keyboards for that.
Nowadays what happens most frequently is that I'll be quoting a foreign
word in an English setting, and I'll just want an ü or an é; and it's
quicker to just copy and paste from the file.


Let me just add, for both of you, that when you use a program like
WizKey, copy and paste isn't required. You use a mnemonic key
combination, which is much easier and faster So, for example, with
WizKey if you want a ç, you hold down the Ctrl key and press the comma
key, then press the c key.