how do people type special characters (em dash, the Rupee symbol, the trademark/copyright symbol, and so on) on Windows? it's pretty simple on macOS using the Option key, but it seems like there's no equivalent to that key on Windows?
i'm currently using AutoHotKey expansions to deal with this, but it would be nice to have a built-in way of doing this that doesn't involve memorizing a bunch of Unicode codepoints.
@s3thi Alt Gr uncovers a bunch of odd symbols in funny places. Which keyboard layout do you use?
I found in Windows it was actually easy to make my own layout with the keys just as I want them, as I range between British English, German and Swedish and they all have different things in their layouts by default.
Oh apparently the layout creator only works on win10? You can still use the created layouts on 11 though: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=102134
Or there's this in Powertoys: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/keyboard-manager
@sarajw i have a standard US English keyboard, but there's no AltGr key on this thing. using PowerToys to get that functionality is a good idea.
the Internet tells me AltGr on Windows behaves somewhat like Option on the Mac, which sounds like just what i need.
oh, and i've actually used that custom keyboard layout tool to create a Devanagari layout for myself (https://ankursethi.in/posts/better-hindi-typing-on-windows-using-devanagari-qwerty/). it works perfectly on Windows 11! but i don't think i want to spend that much energy just for a few extra symbols, especially when AltGr or AutoHotkey will work for me.
thank you :)
