Easily typing unicode letters to a HTML form

Question

Is there a program or a key map that allows me to easily type mathematcial symbols and unicode letters such as these symbols in a web form?

Maybe a keyboard mapping? An assitant program?

(What I'm doing now is, copy-pasting relevant symbols, which is far from convenient...)

Answer 1

Some options:

• If the stuff you put into the web form will be displayed as html, and if the form processing doesn't do any conversion/sanitizing, then you can type the html entities into your input text, e.g. Θ or ∝. It will look ugly in the form input, but displayed as html, it should look like Θ and ∝.

• You can install a Greek keyboard layout and set an accelerator key combo for switching between keyboards, e.g. Shift+Alt. This will only help for the Greek letters, obviously.

• You can learn the Alt+Num shortcuts for the symbols you want. The problem with this is that unfortunately, very few the characters on the page you linked have Alt+Num shortcuts.

None of these options will work for every character, so you will still have to resort to copying and pasting in some cases, but it's better than nothing.

Answer 2

See this Autohotkey script: http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44766