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🔣 Compose Key for Windows

24 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 2 stories, 22 comments · first 2016-06-11 · latest 2026-02-13

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  1. I prefer the linux compose-key style: https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose
    comment by withinboredom · 2026-02-13 · in Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed
  2. For Windows users, I recommend WinCompose: https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose I use the Insert key, which would otherwise have no function.
    comment by teo_zero · 2025-09-23 · in Linux Compose Key Sequences (2007)
  3. …there is WinCompose [1]. For macOS there is [2]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key [1] https://github.com/SamHocevar/wincompose [2] https://github.com/Granitosaurus/macos-compose
    comment by layer8 · 2025-08-04 · in Show HN: Mathpad – Physical keypad for typing math symbols
  4. WinCompose [0] is the spiritual successor to AllChars. [0] https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose
    comment by layer8 · 2025-05-26 · in Mathpad: A mathematical keypad for students and professionals
  5. What i've been using: Install https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose and you can then press AltGr then three hyphens to insert one. or if you're on Linux just search for "compose key".
    comment by unleaded · 2025-03-27 · in How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
  6. WinCompose covers nicely the lack of *nix compose key in Windows. https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose
    comment by andrybak · 2023-12-13 · in Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
  7. …https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/unicode-input/ [2]: https://juliamono.netlify.app/ [3]: https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose
    comment by billyjmc · 2023-11-19 · in Victor Mono Typeface
  8. …file. (It does not honor XCompose includes IIRC, you have to merge everything into one file.) https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose
    comment by pxc · 2023-06-22 · in Writing prettier Haskell with Unicode syntax and Vim
  9. Make it into a compose key: https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose
    comment by pessimizer · 2022-02-21 · in I have no capslock and I must scream
  10. …would pop up instead -.-' So I had to settle with WinCompose to do proper non english languages. https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose Did anybody get this fixed in Windows? If so, please send help! Also if you are inside Microsoft and…
    comment by asimops · 2021-11-16 · in Show HN: My proposal for a new keyboard layout
  11. …C ' if you have a compose key (built in on Linux, WinCompose[1] for Windows, no clue for Mac). [1] https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose
    comment by SAI_Peregrinus · 2021-10-09 · in Ć Programming Language
  12. …I like (currently right-alt). Supposedly (haven't tried it) this system now has a Windows port: https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose Asian languages are harder. But if you're told about IME, then at least if you know what you want to…
    comment by Jach · 2021-09-11 · in Rouille
  13. Fun fact, WinCompose used to be written in AutoHotkey. It's still shown as a branch on GitHub: https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose/tree/autohotkey
    comment by frosted-flakes · 2021-08-13 · in WinCompose – A Compose Key for Windows
  14. …(Xorg/xcompose), that's built in but you may need to map a key to Compose. I use right control. [1] https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose
    comment by SAI_Peregrinus · 2021-07-31 · in Typos, tricks and misprints
  15. > For users on Windows I recommend WinCompose: https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose
    comment by layer8 · 2021-05-19 · in Material You – The next stage for Material Design
  16. WinCompose also works great on Windows. https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose
    comment by frosted-flakes · 2021-05-19 · in Material You – The next stage for Material Design
  17. …lets me type any Unicode character I need. Totally agree that switching layouts is a pain. [0] https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose
    comment by layer8 · 2021-04-08 · in Why keyboard shortcuts don't work on non-US layouts and how devs could fix it
  18. Big fan of being able to just use the X11-style Compose Key sequences via https://github.com/SamHocevar/wincompose And the upstream (en_US anyway) sequences it provides by default: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/plain/nls/en_U…
    comment by Lammy · 2021-02-24 · in A Retrospective Look at Mac OS X Snow Leopard
  19. …and inconsistent symbol shortcuts. On Windows, I use WinCompose[1], which works decently well. [1] https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose (Trivia: WinCompose was originally written in AutoHotkey!)
    comment by frosted-flakes · 2020-04-04 · in Things Markdown got wrong
  20. …exist yet. Some distros of Linux have this built-in, but I use WinCompose[1] on Windows. [1] https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose
    comment by frosted-flakes · 2019-06-08 · in Rust, Macros, λ-calculus/Church numerals, oh my
  21. have you tried https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose
    comment by chronolitus · 2019-01-07 · in Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly on Windows
  22. Of course not, go for it. On Windows I use https://github.com/SamHocevar/wincompose to type that and a bunch of other useful characters. On FreeBSD and Linux, .XCompose.
    comment by PeCaN · 2016-06-11 · in Intel and ME, and why we should get rid of ME