| KinKey | 2 0 0 6 |
Sep 22 |
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KinKey is a tiny app that makes it easy to type with a US keyboard the special characters of
-Spanish
-French
-German
-Portuguese
-Italian
-Catalan.
-French
-German
-Portuguese
-Italian
-Catalan.
It works in Windows XP/2000/Vista.
KinKey is now running in the background (and will run itself at every startup unless you uninstall it). At any2 text-editing place you want, you can now, say, press E and ^ at the same time (in the same way you press Ctrl and C to copy) to get French’s e circumflex, ê. The order doesn’t matter, you could just as easily have pressed ^ and E to get ê.
Here’s a list of the characters you can type with KinKey:
Example:
Pressing A and / results in á.
Pressing Shift (or with CapsLock on), A and / results in Á.
Pressing A and / results in á.
Pressing Shift (or with CapsLock on), A and / results in Á.
| Acute accent (´) | |||
| Letter | Key 1 | Key 2 | |
| á | A | / | |
| é | E | / | |
| í | I | / | |
| ó | O | / | |
| ú | U | / | |
| Grave accent (`) | |||
| Letter | Key 1 | Key 2 | |
| à | A | \ | |
| è | E | \ | |
| ì | I | \ | |
| ò | O | \ | |
| ù | U | \ | |
| Circumflex accent (^) | |||
| Letter | Key 1 | Key 2 | |
| â | A | ^ | |
| ê | E | ^ | |
| î | I | ^ | |
| ô | O | ^ | |
| û | U | ^ | |
| Dieresis or Umlaut (¨) | |||
| Letter | Key 1 | Key 2 | |
| ä | A | % | |
| ë | E | % | |
| ï | I | % | |
| ö | O | % | |
| ü | U | % | |
| Other Diacritic Characters | |||
| Letter | Key 1 | Key 2 | |
| ç | C | 5 | |
| ñ | N | ~ | |
| ã | A | ~ | |
| õ | O | ~ | |
| Other Special Characters | ||
| Symbol | Key 1 | Key 2 |
| ¿ | Ctrl Shift | ? |
| ¡ | Ctrl Shift | ! |
| æ | A | 3 |
| œ | O | 3 |
| ß | S | Z |
| « | < | ” |
| » | > | ” |
| € | E | = |
| £ | L | - |
To uninstall KinKey, close first the program by right-clicking its traybar3 icon,
, and selecting Exit. Now just delete KinKey.exe itself and Kinkey’s gone. Similarly, if you want to move KinKey.exe close first the program.
That’s it. Enjoy.
fn1. Groupie-ly stolen from Instiki.
fn2. There are two known exceptions where KinKey won’t work: Vim and Adobe Photoshop.fn3. The traybar is the area on the bottom-right part of your screen, right next to the clock, where many system-state icons are located.

