Re: mapping āĀăŌōŏŪū&# 365;Ēēĕ to individual hot keys

So spake Matt Cooper:

> These are unicode characters U+101 to U+103 through to
> U+016D. I am creating language databases and I can't find
> a way of not having to go over to Character-Map and
> copying and pasting. What would save me loads of time is
> mapping each character above to a key stroke of some kind.
>
> Alt+some numbers won't bring them up, tried them all.
> I've tried various hot-key programs but none of them will
> recognise the characters when I copy and paste to them
> from the character map, they will recognise only the
> normal characters up to 255.
> I've tried writing visual basic programs but again I can't
> get the characters into a program in the first place.
>
> I will be impressed if someone has a solution to this one,
> and grateful.
>
> cheers
> Matt Cooper

You can use the new Microsoft Keyboard Layout Manager to create your own
layout. You can put your characters on AltGr combinations or use dead keys
or whatever works for you.
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx