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Being a plan 9 nerd, I originally found 9ime [1] when I wanted a compose key in windows. It serves the same purpose and has the same default compose key of right-Alt. I’ve yet to be frustrated by it enough to switch to wincompose (but the UX is certainly better).

[1] https://github.com/sqweek/9ime

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I'm now using this and I like it very much, tiny and superfast, better than the slow bloat of WinCompose.

Build notes for those from the future (I use Windows 7):

1) Install Cygwin, including mingw64-x86_64-gcc-core package

2) Edit build.sh file to replace compiler from CC=gcc to CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc

This provides a native exe without dependancy on cygwin1.dll

I want to try this, is there a prebuilt binary available.

There is not unfortunately.

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