Khowar, also known as Chitrali is a regional language of Pakistan, and spoken by approximately 100,000 people in Pakistan, China and Afghanistan. The Khowar alphabet is a right-to-left script, typically written in Nasta’liq and comprised of 60 letters. This particular keyboard layout was designed by Rehmat Aziz Chitrali, an eminent Read more…
Malayalam is an Indian language mainly spoken in the south west of the country, and particularly in Kerala and the surronding states. Spoken by approximately 38 million people, it is also present in Bahrain, Fiji, Israel, Malaysia, Qatar, Singapore, UAE and the UK. One of the interesting aspects of Brahmic Read more…
For all of you who speak and write èdè Yorùbá, we are announcing three new Yorùbá keyboards: Yorùbá with Dot for KeymanWeb is a simple Unicode keyboard for the Yorùbá language, using the modern dot under the letters ẹ, ọ and ṣ. Find out more from the help guide. Yorùbá Read more…
Mount Kailash image courtesy of Reurinkjan, under Create Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic licence. Today we have two bits of Tibetan good news: We're rolling out a dedicated Tibetan minisite, so that you can find our best Tibetan keyboards in one place. We've updated the Tibetan Unicode Direct Input and Tibetan Read more…
We’ve added a featured minisite for IPA keyboards to the Keyman website. It’s now a lot easier to discover new IPA keyboards and locate old favourites. So What Is IPA? IPA stands for International Phonetic Alphabet, the standard phonetic alphabet used worldwide to acurately and consistently record all the sounds Read more…
When using Windows Live Mail 11 with the European Latin keyboard, you may find extra apostrophes appearing when trying to type words such as café. This would appear as caf'é. Similarly, typing a Hungarian word such as ősi would appear as "ősi. This issue occurs because Windows Live Mail dynamically Read more…
We celebrated the release of Keyman Desktop 8.0 with some commemorative t-shirts and mugs. You can win or buy a T-Shirt or Mug yourself! And there's a fun little story about the design as well.
The Tavultesoft Character Identifier breaks down a Unicode string to show you how it is constructed, and identifies the fonts on your system which will work best with the text you have entered.
This blog post is a refresh of some documentation that has been buried for years on the Tavultesoft website. It is perhaps less important now than it was 5 years ago, but it is still helpful for those poor souls among us who are tasked with looking after existing legacy 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…