TypeIt

If you have the need to type anything in a foreign language which has accents and other strange-looking characters, and you only have a US keyboard, your life used to be miserable. You used to have to do one of the following:

• ignore the special characters
• memorize unintuitive keyboard “shortcuts” such as Alt+0128
• go letter-hunting with the Character Map in Windows or Word
• install Windows keyboard layouts which have the nasty side effect of interfering with your ability to type normal letters
• buy and install third-party text input software

Now, through the miracles of Unicode and JavaScript, you can just navigate to this site, type whatever you need to type in a text box, and then paste it wherever you need it — into your word processor, e-mail message, etc. You can type foreign characters by clicking buttons or by pressing intuitive keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Letter) that don’t require you to grow additional fingers and don’t block normal letters.

Features

• Full keyboard support for IE 6/7/8, Firefox, Safari and Chrome
• Switch between character sets while typing
• Boldface, italics, underline and superscript in all editors
• Choose font face and size