How to use Alt codes on a laptop?
On Windows, which is probably what you’re using (Macs have a very awesome system to type accents, for example, option-e is é), there is a trick I’ve started to use that I think very few people know about that makes it almost as quick as it is on a Mac. [This became really long, but trust me, it’s cool. Skip to the end for a second if you’re wondering what the result looks like.] If you go into Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options, the Languages tab, Details button, you will come to the Text Services window, where you can edit the input settings that your installation of Windows uses. For most people here the list will just have one variant of English listed, “Keyboard”, and one type of keyboard (“US”, or “United Kingdom” I’m guessing for you, Dr.Pill, due to your profile.) So what I do is add a new item to the list, using the button to the right of it. For me the language is English (United States), use whichever language is your default, but make the Keyboard layout/IME “Uni
