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KinKey

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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.


It works in Windows XP/2000/Vista.

 Three step installation: </legend
  1. Download. (200 KB)
  2. Run.
  3. Chuckle… There Is No Step Three 1!

KinKey is now running in the background (and will run itself at every startup unless you uninstall it). At any 2 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.

Acute accent ()
LetterKey 1Key 2
áA)/
éE)/
íI)/
óO)/
úU)/
Grave accent (`)
LetterKey 1Key 2
àA)\
èE)\
ìI)\
òO)\
ùU)\
Circumflex accent (^)
LetterKey 1Key 2
âA)^
êE)^
îI)^
ôO)^
ûU)^
Dieresis or Umlaut (¨)
LetterKey 1Key 2
äA)%
ëE)%
ïI)%
öO)%
üU)%
Other Diacritic Characters
LetterKey 1Key 2
çC)5
ñN)~
ãA)~
õO)~
Other Special Characters
SymbolKey 1Key 2
¿Ctrl Shift)?
¡Ctrl Shift)!
æA)3
œO)3
ßSZ
«<"
»>"
E=
£L)-


To uninstall KinKey, close first the program by right-clicking its traybar 3 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.

Kinkey was inspired by Jef Raskin’s Humane Interface book (particularly pages 185 to 187) and was implemented through AutoHotkey.

That’s it. Enjoy.

1 Groupie-ly stolen from Instiki. 2 There are two known exceptions where KinKey won’t work: Vim and Adobe Photoshop. 3 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.

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