remapping - Getting some French-Canadian keyboard strokes to work on English keyboard

I'm trying to use some of the French-Canadian keyboard stokes I'm used to on an English keyboard. I would like to change the behaviour of some keys. I was able to implement these changes in Vim, but I would like them to be applied system-wide (for Windows and Ubuntu).

Here's what I want to implement :

• If I press [a, the character printed is â.




• When I press [r, something that's supposed to stay normal, the characters printed are [r.




• If I hold [ for 3 seconds, [ is printed. I want this delay to be applied to all my modified keys.




• I want to map < to ' and the characters 'e to è.

  
  

  The complex problem here is that I only want the ' beside the ; key to produce the è character, NOT when I press the < (remapped to ') then e.

I'll show you a .vimrc file that implements this, now I want this behavior system-wide:

set timeout timeoutlen=3000 ttimeoutlen=100
inoremap [a â
inoremap [A Â
inoremap [e ê
inoremap [E Ê
inoremap [i î
inoremap [I Î
inoremap [o ô
inoremap [O Ô
inoremap [u û
inoremap [U Û
inoremap 'a à
inoremap 'A À
inoremap 'e è
inoremap 'E È
inoremap 'u ù
inoremap 'U Ù
inoremap }e ë
inoremap }E Ë
inoremap }i ï
inoremap }I Ï
inoremap }u ü
inoremap }U Ü
inoremap ]c ç
inoremap ]C Ç
inoremap / é
inoremap < '

Answer

AutoHotKey, mentioned by harrymc, was the solution.

Here is a part of the AutoHotKey code that solves my specific problem. Missing letters can be easily added.

StringCaseSense On
; circumflex accents
$[::
Send [
Input, Char, T2 L1, {delete}{esc}{home}{end}
if Char = a
{
    Send {backspace}â
    return
}
Send %Char%
return
; grave accents
$'::
Send '
Input, Char, T2 L1, {delete}{esc}{home}{end}
if Char = a
{
    Send {backspace}à
    return
}
Send %Char%
return
; trema
+]::
Send {}}
Input, Char, T2 L1, {delete}{esc}{home}{end}
if Char = e
{
    Send {backspace}ë
    return
}
Send %Char%
return
; cedilla
$]::
Send ]
Input, Char, T2 L1, {delete}{esc}{home}{end}
if Char = c
{
    Send {backspace}ç
    return
}
Send %Char%
return
; other fixes
$<::
Send '
Input, Char, T2 L1, {delete}{esc}{home}{end}
if Char =
{
    Send {backspace}<
    return
}
Send %Char%
return
$/::
Send é
Input, Char, T2 L1, {delete}{esc}{home}{end}
if (Char = "")
{
    Send {backspace}/
    return
}
Send %Char%
return
$?::
Send É
Input, Char, T2 L1, {delete}{esc}{home}{end}
if (Char = "")
{
    Send {backspace}?
    return
}
Send %Char%
return