Carlinga

What is Carlinga ?

Carlinga is a utility that helps typing special characters like oe, ß, ½, Á. It automatically replaces some character sequences, called hotstrings or mnemonics, with special characters. For example, to write á, you type ,'a or á and to write a rightwards arrow (→) you type ,-> or →.

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Carlinga

Main advantages

• Hotstrings are easier to remember and to type than codes like alt+0225.
• Typing hotstrings is faster than using Character Map or similar utilities.
• You don't have to move your fingers from the home row.
• It can be customized to type any Unicode character.

Getting started

Unzip the carlinga.zip archive and double-click on carlinga.exe. In the notification area, you’ll see a new icon representing a map of world languages. Open any Windows program and type ,oe. This hotstring will be replaced with œ. Type ,-> and it will be replaced with →. You can find a list of hotstrings in the carlinga_help.pdf file.
To close Carlinga, just right-click on the icon in the notification area and choose Exit. You can also deactivate hotstrings temporarily by right-clicking on the icon in the notification area and choosing Suspend Hotkeys.
Carlinga needs no installation and is portable. You can start it from a USB flash drive.

Background

Carlinga is an Autohotkeyscript. The hotstrings are generally inspired by Linux compose sequencesand html entities.
Carlinga is open source software. It is published under the GPL licence http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt.
If you have some basic knowledge of Autohotkey scripting, you can adapt it to your own needs by editing the .ahk files and running them using Autohotkey_L with Unicode, not Autohotkey Classic.
 

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