Quick Unicode

I installed 'Quick' and it is not working, infact it is switched on now and... nope, no result! I am using Windows ME and have unicode fonts installed in my computer. I can read unicode and even write it with a tool I created. But 'Quick' is the tool I have been looking for desperately. How to make it work? What do I need to do??

By the way, I tried typing in Notepad, Microsoft FrontPage, Google search textbox (where unicode always works) and in GMail.

Unfortunately no-one is going to be able to help you, because although you've said what is not happening, you haven't said what is happening.

It would be useful to know

- what options you have turned on (right-click on the Quick Unicode icon in the system tray to find out).
- whether you have Num Lock turned on or off.
- what happens when you hold down Alt, type the decimal point on the numeric keypad, then release Alt.
- what happens within Notepad when you hold down Alt, type 3 2 1, then release Alt.

- All the 3 options are turned on.
- Num Lock is turned on.
- When I press Alt + . Charmap opens.
- When press Alt + 321 in Notepad, character 'L' appears.

Help me to understand what exactly "Quick" do. Because I am under the impression that it turns the normal keyboard keys to unicode keys (?!). I have read the documentation (available in this site), but haven't understood.

Alt + . = Charmap shows that the utility is working.

Alt + 3 2 1 = Ł (L with a line through it) shows that the utility is working.

(Alt + 3 2 1 = A would show that the utility was not working.)

Alt + 3 2 1 = L (L without a line through it) shows that the utility is working but the program you are typing into is only able to handle characters in the Windows character set. Notepad on Windows 95/98/ME is such a program, which is why you would see that behaviour.

I'm afraid there isn't any documentation beyond what you have read already.

I don't know what you mean by a "Unicode key" and I don't know what it is you are trying to do. Perhaps you could give a concrete example of characters that you want to type. Give a description of the character, and the code you are typing, and what happens when you type it, so I can follow what you are doing.

First of all, the only way "Quick" works is by holding Alt and pressing bunch of numpad numbers? Can't we assigns each key of the keyboard to something else? For example when I press "a" it should output "ಅ" (Indic Unicode Character)

That's right. As the documentation says, it does Alt+nnn and nothing else. It was never designed to reassign keys.