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Re:Rust 1.53 by mynameisash on Thursday June 17, 2021 @01:09PM (#27541920)
It would be nice if this were built into Windows, but in lieu of that, I have been using WinCompose[0] for several years for typing diacritics (as part of my learning French). For example:

* ALT e' = Γ©

* ALT u " = ΓΌ

* ALT n ~ = Γ±

It's not limited to diacritics; you can type ligatures (ALT ae = Γ¦), extended characters (ALT [/] = ), I assume the majority of UTF (ALT #G = π„ž) and so on. And yes, even emoji (ALT ALT alembic = )

edit: apparently, HN won't show the checkbox (U+2611) or alembic[1].

[0] http://wincompose.info/

[1] https://emojipedia.org/alembic/

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Re:Rust 1.53 by jcranmer on Thursday June 17, 2021 @01:23PM (#27542057)
> It would be nice if this were built into Windows, but in lieu of that

Something that's basically equivalent is builtin. Just switch your keyboard from EN-US to EN-INTL, and now several accent characters become dead keys, so ' e = Γ©, etc.

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