Keyboard special chars

[SeekaX]

Well, unfortunately my native language has terrible chars such as äöü and i don't want to switch keyboard layouts all the time, so i decided to download
The Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator to make my own layout including these stupid chars.
ä = ctrl + ,
ö = ctrl + .
ü = ctrl + /
Ä = ctrl + shift + ,
Ö = ctrl + shift + .
Ü = ctrl + shift + /
€ = ctrl + '
ß = ctrl + ;

I managed to get it all running, unfortunately the functionality differs from application to application. In Notepad everything works flawlessly, in Word nothing at all, in Skype and Chrome some of them. Mainly because those programs already have other functions bound to those combinations.
Is there any way around that?

Also the standard US layout has those keys as well as alt + ctrl combinations, but none of them work either.

 

[Remmy]

If you can't find a way around it, the shortcut Windows key + Space changes the keyboard layout quickly, at least in Windows 8. That's what I do for swapping between QWERTY and QWERTZ.

 

[SeekaX]

If you can't find a way around it, the shortcut Windows key + Space changes the keyboard layout quickly, at least in Windows 8. That's what I do for swapping between QWERTY and QWERTZ.

So does alt + shift. Trying to avoid that.
I suppose it would work just fine if i could assign things to alt + key but that isn't possible for some reason.

 

[Remmy]

So does alt + shift. Trying to avoid that.
I suppose it would work just fine if i could assign things to alt + key but that isn't possible for some reason.

Lol alt + shift is actually faster too, cheers for that

 

[YouWhat]

ASCII is what you want, and a list of the characters so you get the number eg

248 = °
230 = µ

All you do is hold down the left ALT button on keyboard and the type in the numbers on keypad (num lock needs to be on).

Attachments from http://www.asciitable.com/

Hope this solves things for you quickly and easily.

 

[Snortan]

Get a macro software and use the ASCII codes as mentioned above. Use the macros as shortcuts.

 

[SeekaX]

ASCII is what you want, and a list of the characters so you get the number eg

248 = °
230 = µ

All you do is hold down the left ALT button on keyboard and the type in the numbers on keypad (num lock needs to be on).

Attachments from http://www.asciitable.com/

Hope this solves things for you quickly and easily.

Tenkeyless, no numpad. That is also even less convenient than pressing alt + shift.

Get a macro software and use the ASCII codes as mentioned above. Use the macros as shortcuts.

The problem would still remain, the button combinations i want to use are being used by the programs as well. For example skype opens up the options window when you press ctrl + ,.

 

[Snortan]

Install autohotkey and use it to override shortcuts. Iirc it goes something like this

^,::
{
SendInput {ä}
}
return

Copy it in a notepad and save as name.ahk and run it. It should ignore any application shortcuts and send ä instead.
Use ^ for ctrl, ! for alt, + for shift and # for win key.