On Windows 7, we are hearing about a common problem that you are having: you are having trouble finding the Keyman Desktop icon where it normally lives, down in the notification area or ‘tool tray,’ which by default is at the bottom right of your screen. For some of you, Read more…
A few days ago I was assisting a Tamil customer with a Unicode keyboard they had designed which used visual input order. Visual input order means that vowels such as TAMIL VOWEL SIGN E, U+0BC6 ெ are typed before the consonant with which they combine, even though they are stored Read more…
In the last week, I've spent a fair bit of time tidying up the installer. There were a number of issues I had to resolve, such as problems upgrading when the user's admin status had been removed in between the original install and the upgrade … yep, we've had to Read more…
In my last blog I talked about some of the more visible new features in version 8 of Keyman Desktop. In this blog I'd like to quickly go through some of the important features that are just little bit less visible. Full x64 support Keyman Desktop 8 now includes full Read more…
Today we released a new beta for Keyman Desktop 8.0. This beta is very nearly feature complete — we held off on just one area so we could get this beta out so you could start using it. In this blog I'd like to go through a few of the Read more…
I’m very pleased to announce that we are today publishing the first beta of Keyman Desktop 8. This preview release of Keyman Desktop 8 includes a bunch of new features and most importantly full x64 support. This release is very incomplete but we wanted to get the new beta x64 Read more…
Most Keyman Desktop keyboards can be compiled for KeymanWeb without modification. However, there are a few platform differences that it is important to be aware of, and a few differences in the supported Keyman Keyboard Language features between Keyman Desktop and KeymanWeb. The table below details the differences. Feature Keyman Read more…
A month ago we blogged about our new KeymanWeb Wikipedia Plugin. Now you can use KeymanWeb to type in your native language anywhere in Wikipedia. That's right – without a specialised keyboard, you can edit pages, search for information, or participate in discussions in over 200 languages, including languages like Read more…
Another support incident report from Marc and Peirce… Last week we were assisting a Sinhala user who was having trouble selecting Sinhala fonts in Microsoft Word 2003 on WIndows XP: no matter which font they chose, it would switch back to "KaputaUnicode" as soon as they started typing in Sinhala. Read more…
Recently I was asked a question about Keyman involving a display issue with the Hebrew holam vowel point (U+05B9). The problem was that the holem vowel was causing too much space to appear between letters. To reproduce the scenario, I used Keyman Desktop’s Font Helper and the “Getting Started” text Read more…