yuriyguts/unicode-virtual-keyboard

Windows utility that simplifies the input of Unicode characters by displaying a handy on-demand virtual keyboard with powerful character search functionality and global hotkey support.

Unicode Virtual Keyboard

A Windows utility (powered by Win32 API and .NET 2.0 Windows Forms) that simplifies the input of Unicode characters by displaying a handy on-demand virtual keyboard via a global keyboard hook.

Customizable global keyboard shortcuts and multiple UI languages are supported.

How To Use

Entering Unicode Characters

Favorites

Unicode Virtual Keyboard supports up to 10 customizable slots for frequently used characters.

unicode-virtual-keyboard's Issues

Support characters above 0xFFFF

As of the v1.1 release, Unicode Virtual Keyboard supports only 2-byte characters (0x0000-0xFFFF). As the new Unicode standards are released, the application has to support new long characters that lie outside the Basic Multilingual Plane.

1. Will need to replace ushort with a custom type everywhere in the code.
2. Will need some tools to extend and rebuild the character database.

Make keyboard larger?

Hi! Thanks for this very useful utility -- just tested it on Windows 10 and it worked very well.

Would it be possible to change the number of favorites, say with 22x9 (22 columns, 9 rows), as well as with a pre-defined character set?

As I haven't been programming for Windows for ages, it would be great if you can point us to the right place(s) in the source code for the customization work.

Thanks!
Audrey

Bitdefender Blocks

Hi, very weird that Bitdefender totally blocks unicode-virtual-keyboard.

What possible code could you have in this that sets off Bitdefender?

Sure it could be a false negative BUT why in a simple software like this?

Feel really sad that this is the case, really wanted to try out your software BUT you cannot be to careful these days so as long as Bitdefender blocks it i will not use it.

If you can fix this some how it would be much appreciated. If not then THX anyway :)