Increasing the diversity of people who write Python (was: Benefits of unicode identifiers)

[Paul Moore]

On 27 November 2017 at 19:05, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27 November 2017 at 18:13, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If you have a Windows key, you can assign it to be
>>> the Compose key.
>>
>> Would this be true on a machine running Windows? My work environment
>> has me developing on Linux, with a Windows desktop. It's not clear to
>> me that any sort of xmodmap shennanigans would work. Won't Windows
>> itself always gobble up that key?
>
> Programs can access the Windows key. IIRC, there is a utility that
> provides compose-key functionality on Windows. I can't recall the name
> right now and it's on my other PC, not this one, but I'll try to
> remember to post the name tomorrow...

WinCompose was the program - https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose

Paul