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How do I type special characters (Alt+0???) in Windows on a laptop without ANY kind of numeric keyboard (even not one accessed by FN)? Right now I am using the NT 4 charmap (the XP one sucks), but does anyone know of a more efficient way?

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So, you are using Windows XP? – iglvzx Dec 29 '11 at 20:38
@kinokijuf To me you picked a good way. find and 1 click as opposed to typing 4 things. What else could there be? Remapping, or creating shorts for some special charachters you use. using a International keyboard, or some super special OnScreenKeyboard that is better than the charmap. Having a big clipboard of whole "Words" to paste without retyping. What kind of thing were you thinking would be better? How about keys that work like texting on the phone? hold them down and they change to the accented version of them ? – Psycogeek Dec 29 '11 at 20:49
@Psycogeek: But I’m more of a keyboarder. – kinokijuf Dec 29 '11 at 22:46
ergonis.com/products/popcharx/features.html#Anchor-SearchField ?? there is one programmers idea of simpler. – Psycogeek Dec 30 '11 at 0:48
@Psycogeek: what made you think I am using OSX? – kinokijuf Dec 30 '11 at 19:01
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I tried the Unicode IME, and it works. Now I have to remember all the codepoints.

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