Accent Composer simplifies the process of entering accented characters and other symbols into any Windows program. It lets you enter any character, in any program, with an easy-to-remember sequence of keystrokes.

To create an accented character simply press the designated 'Compose' key (the right-hand Alt key by default), then press the desired accent mark followed by the letter. For example, to produce the accented letter '±' just press the Compose key followed by '~' and 'n'.

Accent Composer is not limited to accented characters. For instance, the copyright symbol, ©, can be produced with the keystrokes 'Compose', 'c' and 'o', while the Yen symbol ¥ can be created with 'Compose', '=' and 'Y'.

Accent Composer is initially set up to produce more than 350 symbols and characters, including all accented Latin characters and all Greek characters. You can see a summary of them here (PDF).

You can also add any of the more than 65,000 characters defined in the Unicode...