When typing in a text box on a monitor not chosen as the primary monitor, the bar with all of the accent choices does not become visible on any screen.

Hi, your PowerAccent is great ! Could you add spanish char ñ / Ñ ?
This letter is found on the Spanish keyboard on the key ;

There are likely issues far more important than this, but can a Light Mode, Dark Mode, and System Default option be added?

Best regards!

Amazing work, it amazes me how just a few days ago I was thinking why Windows doesn't have this feature, similar to the Mobile keyboards, and then I receive an update on PowerToys 🤯.

Anyway, here are my suggestions:

• Customize our own available special characters and its positions.
• Use the numbers row on the keyboard, to immediately enter the special character on the caret position.
  • ie. Let's take the letter 'e' caret that currently contains [é][è][ê][ë][ē][ė][€]. If the user presses 'e'>'3'(*) it would immediately enter an [ê].
    (*) EDIT: to make this more versatile, we could allow any combination for the desired character, ie. 'e'+'9'='é'

The accents set for the Dutch language is incomplete. We use a some accents on vowels.

Please add:

ë é è ê
ä á
ö ó ô
ï í
ü ú

Being able to type € with PowerAccents is wonderful! Would it be possible to add Korean Won (₩), Chinese Yuan (¥), Indian Rupee (₹), Philippine Peso (₱), Swiss Franc (₣), British Pound (£), Turkish Lira (₺), & Russian Ruble (₽) to PowerAccents? Sorry if I got any symbols wrong.

I could use this utility (and received it via the PowerToys update), but I am not smart enough to activate it. 🙃

When I have the tool enabled, and follow the example given (press and hold e then hit space), I end up with a bunch of e's and spaces.... as I would expect.

I tried changing the "Activation key" from 'Both' to 'Space' but it isn't saved (when I navigate away and come back, the setting is still 'Both').

Hello @damienleroy 👋 Thanks a lot for your amazing tool! 🙏

I noticed one small issue which I'm not sure if it will be possible to resolve: when PowerAccent is used together with PowerToys which has some keys remapping configuration in place, remapping is not working. In my case I have alt mapped to control and control to alt in PowerToys and together with PowerAccent it's not working. I also tried another tool called holdkey.eu and it also breaks remapping in PowerToys. So I'm not sure if it's possible to solve.

Thank you again!

key presses when playing osu! is dropping constantly when a key is held. I confirmed this by holding down my z and x keys and the key hold is intermittently dropping when the plugin is enabled vs when it is turned off where the game works normally.

ß is in B, instead of S where it would be expected. Could that be altered in a later update?

Best regards!

Thank you for your Tool.

My enhancement / feature request is regarding the sorting of the symbols.
Pressing space multiple times to get to the symbol i need most is a bit tedious.
By using this data per capita Relative frequencies of letters in other languages one could easily increase the usability of this tool.

The specific feature request would be: Adding an option in the settings with a dropdown that contains the supported languages, which resorts the toolbar options.

As a German, I need ë, ö, ü quite often, which seems to be unusual internationally.
Now I have to wait till the toolbar appears and press the button 2 – 3 times.
With this improvement I wouldn't need to wait because for my country the ones I require most appear first.

Hello, I saw another issue about Turkish character support (#4), so wanted to provide a list of Polish letters for the eventual integration in the future:

All Polish Accented characters:

• Ą ą
• Ć ć
• Ę ę
• Ł ł
• Ń ń
• Ó ó
• Ś ś
• Ź ź
• Ż ż

[Source]

Hi,
I extracted the accent-letters I cad and transformed them in code, so far I found the connection points.

Because I am totaly clueless with C# I beg your pardon, if there is a mistake and I a totally aware of the uncompleteness of the source code.

Cheers.
KeyEnum.cs and SettingsService.cs.zip

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Multiple countries at once/tickbox possible, instead of single country selection? I type frequently in French and Portuguese - while those two share a few accents, there are a bunch that aren't shared. I'm sure there are others, e.g. a Norse person who's learning a Latin language.

Hi Damien,

first of all thank you very much for this fantastic tool. It really makes life easier.

However, especially as a gamer, I find myself telling you that the activation of Quick Accent while playing is not rare. The combination A or E (when using WASD) + spacebar or right/left arrow is very common.

How about adding a third button, or giving the user the option to choose it himself?

Thanks for your attention and keep up the good work!

I'm sure this would have been done if it's possible, but it would be wonderful if activation didn't require a key combo and instead could be triggered by holding down a key (like MacOS and all mobile / touch keyboards I have ever seen).

I have very rarely wanted to type aaaaaaaaa.

The acute, grave, circumflex, caron and macron should be available for all vowels. They are used to indicate tones in transcriptions of tonal languages.

I just noticed the update to PowerToys and your work bundled in it, thanks a lot! I've missed this feature from macOS. However, I think that having the popup anywhere other than where the user is already looking is not optimal, especially on large monitors.

I'm not sure whether you could plug into that built-in autocomplete/autocorrect which comes with Win11, but it would be great to put the popup in a similar place

Much needed, but still missing: a doc with goals and non-goals, including their priority.
It's absolutely critical to set boundaries, or this app could grow uncontrollably in result to people wanting more and more different things.

This feature makes each key behave differently from what the user might expect.

In the following scenario, take Spanish for example; these three accented letters are used quite often:

é = e+space
á = a+space+space+space
ú = a+space+space+space+space

And these not so much:

à = a+space
û = u+space

I understand the reasoning behind picking this methodology, it works with the LETTER+SPACE tap dance for certain languages; however, it seems incompatible with the international PowerTools appeal.

A possible solution to this problem that doesn't involve creating a way for the User to order each key manually is to offer some variant configurations for different configurations, for example, the Spanish Variant might do something like:

á = a+space
ú = u+space
ü = u+space+space

An so forth.

Suggestion

The module should optionally inactivate itself while the user is Focused on a Full Screen/Borderless Window app or game in Game Mode, similar to how the Mouse Utilities Module has a toggle to inactivate in Game Mode.

Why?

These apps often require esoteric key combinations which may cause unintended behaviour (just to be clear I have not experienced any such issues yet). Custom app-specific toggle switches might also be a good idea.

I don't know if this happens in other languages but in italian the accent is very often (if not always) put at the end of a word, so would be incredibly optimizing to add an option that allows the program to put a space after the modification of the selected character

I was thinking about, what if every user can edit the characters table?
I mean, just editing a json file, everyone can create a table for each letter.

This could be useful also because in this way there is no necessary compile whenever you want to add a new language.
It could also be useful for the community, so that everyone could share their own custom pattern.

For example:

• if a user can select the desired language, there should be a "custom language" where he can create the preferred characters table.

Just like it is in the theme settings for the new Windows Terminal.

Thank your for the nice and practical piece of software.
May I propose to add letters for hungarian language?

Ő ő Ű ű

see https://www.wikiwand.com/de/Ungarische_Sprache

Thank you in advance.

Best regards
Andreas

Due to how this feature works if I press D, F, and Spacebar at the same time, I get only F, I've noticed this issue more often since I can type at around 180wpm. I have confirmed it is specifically with Quick Accent as I get this issue consistently if I have it enabled.

Version: v0.62.0

I usually strafe in World of Warcraft and other similar games, I use QWE to move, and when I jump with space bar E + Space activate the PowerAccent. Thank you.

Hello! PowerAccent already has this option:

How about the same option for other currency signs?
E.g. Ruble sign ₽ via Cyrillic Р

This is already used in (custom) Ilya Birman's Typography Layout (Russian) when calling AltGr+P (h), because it is intuitive and more convenient than AltGr+8 in current Win8+ keyboard layout.

Other example: Yen sign ¥ via Latin Y

Issue:
When opening Windows after shutting-down and powering-on or restarting, PowerAccent will be off-centered for each character available. It will become centered only after usage, and resets after shutting-down and powering-on or a restart.

Question/Request:
Also, is it possible for the money signs to be combined with regular accents? I'm not sure why, but the options for ¥, £, and € are unavailable. Other money signs are available, but not the ones I mentioned. The PowerToys version has € and doesn't have the centering issue. This could be something on my end, but I'm not sure.

Best regards!

Turkish language option works fine with one small mistake and one big mistake right now.

1. Turkish "I" character is weird. There are two distinct characters using the English I glyph that is I ı & İ i So we need:

• For regluar i key (lowercase i): ı U+0131 added at the first place
• For capitalized I key (shift + i OR caps lock i): I U+0130 added at the first place

2. Second issue is rather small:

• For some reason Spanish ñ is the top of the list for the key "u", it needs to be ü for regular Turkish use

I've made an AutoHotkey script to easily insert non-breaking spaces (Ctrl+Shift+SPACE).
When Quick Accent is enabled, this shortcut either doesn't do anything, or inserts a 0.
I've tried using only Left/Right Arrow as an activation key, with no changes. I've also changed my shortcut to avoid using the Space key, with no changes either.

Here's the AutoHotkey script, for reference:

#NoEnv
SendMode Input 
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%
^+SPACE:: send {Asc 0160}

This is a great utility. I use it with my British keyboard. Only missing character for Turkish is "Ş" or "ş". If you can add these characters to "S" or "s" it will be compatible with Turkish alphabet. Thanks in advance.

The Māori language is one of the three official languages of New Zealand. It would be great if the Māori ā ē ī ō ū macronised vowels were supported.

lets say im moving in a fullscreen game (w, a, s, d), and hit space ,
the game minimizes.

so, maybe add an option to disable this app for fullscreen apps, or maybe for certain apps.
for now, switching to the arrow keys instead of space seems to be the best option.

great that you did a new release.
works well with my romanian language, as i asked for by the other issue.
but: my mothertongue is german.
if someone works with an english/french/islandic/... system he may need full german letterset.
so:
may i propose to add the 4 non-english letters for german language?
here they are:

äöüß

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language#Orthography

thank you in advance.
regards, andy

Swedish characters: Å å Ä ä Ö ö
Thanks!
--dbacker8

great piece of software, thanks.
may i propose to add the 5 non-english letters for romanian language?
here they are:

âăîşţ

thank you in advance.
regards, andy

Can you add an 'input delay' option, please?
I recently switched from the PowerToys version and that's a point I sorely miss.

One thing I noticed: If you select 'world wide' as country, you don't have access to the German 'ß'.

Would it be possible to add support for the Polish diacritics (ąęłżź)?

When typing the letter "a" in the Google search bar, the letter will not be replaced. Strangely enough, it only replaces the letters after. E.g., "a" may have "æ" typed in after, making it "aæ" in the search bar. Typing "a" once more using PowerAccent will replace the third "a" in the search bar. Now, out of the possible combinations, it could be "aææ"

To Recreate:

1. Type "a" in Google search bar and use PowerAccent.

2. See Issue

3. Type "a" again into the Google search bar and use PowerAccent. (This one was replaced)

Thanks for this awesome tool! I wonder if Pinyin support can be added.

Pinyin is a romanization system for Mandarin Chinese. There are 6 letters (A, E, I, O, U, Ü), together with their lowercase forms (a, e, i, o, u, ü). Each letter has four tones ( ̄ ́ ̌ ̀ ), so there are 6 * 2 * 4 = 48 accented characters in total. A detailed list of all accented characters with their Unicode can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin#Unicode_code_points.

The Rare letters are rarely used and the Shorthand pinyin letters are never used in practice. So only the Common letters section is needed.

Like

• Changelog
• Info 'bout recent adoption by PowerToys (will this repo stop or be a redundant copy or..?)
• etc.

SymWin does the same thing as PowerAccent and originally made by @mjvh80 in 2018. Here's my fork with a couple of minor updates and binaries.

I'm not a professional C# developer, but there might be some ideas in the code for you. It currently supports every key on the keyboard, for which many accents and special symbols, approximately by usage for me (English/French/Spanish/Portuguese speaker) on an "average" of a UK (mine) and US (standard) keyboard. It uses CAPSLOCK as the activator key, using multiple presses of the character to type the accent.

Hi,
I often lock my machine with Win+L key combination and PowerAccent seems convinced I'm holding the L key when I unlock (e.g. space gets intercepted as the shortcut for accents on L instead of allowing me start unlocking the machine).

In languages that don't support accents on all or some of the letters in the module - accents are still added and the toolbar appears even if the letter is different from latin (but still using the same symbol)

For example, latin C and cyrillic С are different Unicode characters using the same symbol and the module activates the replacement on both of them, i.e.:
Latin Ć and Cyrillic Ć
The issue is that Cyrillic С should not have accents, actually only У and I could have them in cyrillic languages

I suggest either checking the current input language or adding an option to enable/disable accents for enabled keyboard layouts

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Heh... even English has a few math symbols/em dashes/archaic accents that are unrepresented... æ œ – (em dash, I think...?) - (normal dash) ⁸ (superscript numbers) ½ (fractions) ≠≈ ø × √ ÷ (math symbols, perhaps on number keys?) ⁑ ⁂ ★ § ‼ ‽ † ‡ ※ (typography/writing), α β γ (Greek letters) ... I added a bunch in SymWin, back in the day.
Idea: a "Maths" flag that can be checked for math symbols, English flag for archaic British English characters, a "Writers" flag for typography characters like dashes, daggers/asterisks

Not sure how many languages have an accent for the letter r, but Czech has the "ř" letter

Apologies in advance if I'm using bad GitHub protocol here...I'm as new and as noob as they come, and I'm not in tech at all

Anyway, any chance we could set the speed to below 100ms? I'm absolutely certain my keystrokes aren't even close to théfastest around (did you see that?) but 100ms is still giving me 1 or 2 unintentional accent insertions every time I'm typing something.

50ms? 25ms? 20ms? I'm sure there's some realistic floor to that speed, but as I'm finding out, 100ms is just too much space.

Thank you for théawesome PowerToy (again, you see that right?) Also thénew (:p) 'Set Language' option from v0.63.0 is very welcome!

I wanted to know if I can contribute to the project by adding support for Indic Diacritics in English (India) in the project.

When trying to use this I cannot find any way to make it work - e.g. hold down 'a' and it keeps repeating ad infinitum, press space bar to get the accents and nothing happens other than space bar keeps repeating. The same happens when trying to use left & right arrow keys .

Great pity as it would have been useful if it worked.

Tâi-Lô and Pe̍h-ōh-jī are transliterations used for Hokkien (Min language) and Hakka in Taiwan, which requires extensive support for accented characters and Unicode character combinations. (mentioned at #10 (comment))