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Comment author: ChristianKl 20 June 2016 12:00:16PM *  0 points [-]

I just started using the MessagEase keyboard on Android. It has a nice feature whereby pressing alⓒ gives you α and beⓒ gives you β.

On the other hand I have to press Alt +3B1 or Alt 224 to get α in windows and that's extremly difficult to remember. I think it would be great if somebody would write a program that also allows me easy access to such unicode characters on windows.

Comment author: pseudobison 28 June 2016 06:46:53AM 0 points [-]

I use Autohotkey on Windows for that purpose.

Comment author: ChristianKl 28 June 2016 01:16:31PM 0 points [-]

Do you have the script that you use on your Github?

Comment author: pseudobison 28 June 2016 07:16:26PM *  0 points [-]

No; my script only contains the handful of unicode characters I commonly use, and is so idiosyncratic to me that it wouldn't be of much use to anyone else (mine includes autoreplacements for directories, email addresses I commonly type, etc.). But it's easy enough to make your own with whatever characters you use -- the syntax is simply

::text-to-replace::desired-replacement

::alpha::α

::em::—

etc.