This post builds on our last post about testing Keyman touch layouts. Now, we provide an alternative test platform for your keyboards, running on your desktop computer rather than your touch device. Google Chrome includes a mobile emulator for web pages, for various devices including iPhones, iPads and Androids. Recent Read more…
I recently discovered a number of comments on our blog that had gone unnoticed, and for which we received no notification. I’m sorry: I want to respond to all the comments and questions. Now that I’ve found the comments, I’ll respond here, even though it’s really too late! Obviously, we’ll Read more…
Keyman Developer 9 (download the beta, free, here) includes full touch layout editing tools. In the image below I am editing the Geez Frontier Foundation's Amharic touch layout. We talk more about the touch editor in previous blog posts: Creating a touch keyboard layout for Amharic – Part 1 Creating Read more…
Marc here. I’ve been trying to use the Keyman keyboard on iOS 8 exclusively for a few days, now that iOS 8 is in gold master. This post is written to give you a bit of an idea of how deep we try and go in working through usability and Read more…
Update 18 Sep 2014: This issue has been fixed in iOS 8. Read more. In the last couple of weeks, since the release of iOS 7.1, we have started receiving reports from Keyman for iPhone and iPad users of issues with fonts. Specifically, the missing character square box, or question Read more…
Update 4 July 2014: KeymanWeb Amharic Mini 2.0 is now online and is much faster to use! Read more… KeymanWeb Amharic Mini is a new website that makes it possible for you to type in Amharic on your Nokia mobile phone, and post your message in Amharic to Facebook. Read more…
Since the release of the KeymanWeb 2.0 beta, we haven't been sitting around. We have in fact released 7 updates to the beta in the last month! Today, we consolidated a lot of that effort into build 335, and I'm happy to be able to report on some of the Read more…
We are pleased to announce, after quite a break, a minor update for Keyman Desktop. This update just fixes two bugs which a few customers have reported: I3906: The Font helper can report less than 100% coverage when space or control characters are involved. This means that when trying Read more…
Keyman has a long and colourful history of integration with Windows. Keyman introduced the concept of language switching even before Windows supported multiple languages — way back in 1991. Because of this long history, and the support we added over this time for Windows 3.1, 95/98/Me, NT4, through 2000, XP, Read more…
Over the last few months, you may have noticed a new help link popping up in Keyman keyboard searches: ScriptSource is a new initiative from the folks at SIL, designed to be a: "dynamic, collaborative reference to the writing systems of the world, with detailed information on scripts, characters, languages Read more…