I use this on all my USB sticks now and it's incredibly well made. It supports all sorts of accents, deadkeys and Unicode I managed to throw at it, and has made working with other people's computers much easier for me. Heartily recommended!

Shai, I hope you link/sticky this program.

Thank you, Shai!

Comment: it requires at least winXP, as I know.

Yes, I use it on Vista.

But – thanks the question – if you have administrator privileges, it is recommended to run it as an administrator, because you can not send characters from a normal program (pkl) to an "administrator program".

This looks very nice! Is there a way to get some other colors for the images? (Blue on yellow looks a bit strong on my eye among other things.) And to make the different colors follow my fingering convention (using the left hand for 6 for instance)? I suppose you generate the images in some way, but I could always just edit them manually if I want some small changes.

Also, you put the layouts out as folders. I don't know how to download a folder short of doing it one file at a time which is slow since there are many files in the one I want. Could you either tell me how to do this conveniently, or preferably upload the layouts as .zip archives, please?

OK, I want to give this another shot.

But how to I switch layouts on-the-fly?

What do I type to switch from Colemak to Hebrew? I installed the Hebrew files.

PKL supports it, see the "sample.ini" in the layout directory or the ddvorak layout which use BackSpace as right shift and right shift as Enter.

Thank you, I will reply there.

Hi WineChristmas! Please bear in mind that the main discussion forums for this application are on the AutoHotkey forums (and I suppose, the sourceforge repository).

However, I'll answer your simple questions (although a few of those should be fairly obvious if you look at your keyboard!):
- LCt/RCt = Left/Right Ctrl (Strg if you're German)
- LW/RW = Left/Right Win (GUI if you're a *nix user)
- AGr = AltGr (in case anyone wondered; this key is not the same as RAlt but sends LCtrl+RAlt for the 'level 3' chars)

A dead key is a key that waits for another keypress before producing anything. Like an accent key (that most layouts other than the silly US standard one use).

ds26gte: You're confusing a glyph with an input method. And the people that protest that the umlaut isn't an accent are confusing typography (which is what a text-producing service does) with linguistics. Of course the umlauted letters are independent glyphs and graphemes representing independent phonemes, but that doesn't reduce the status of the umlaut as an accent. I uphold my judgement, and find it reinforced.

The US keyboard WINDOWS LAYOUT is simply denying people the possibility to create glyphs necessary for international writing in an easy and integral way independent of application-based crutches. Other OSes using the Compose key alternative to the deadkey approach don't have this problem.