Category: Developing Keyman

The most requested feature of Keyman for Android was to be able to use Keyman keyboards across all apps on the device. With the latest 1.1 version update to our app, it's now a reality! Here is a step-by-step guide to install a keyboard across your entire Android device: Step Read more…

We've recently published a stack of Native North Amercian keyboards courtesy of Chris Harvey. The list of keyboards are: Haisla Unicode Kwak'wala Unicode Uwikala Unicode Diitiidatx Unicode Nuuchahnulth Unicode SENCOTEN Unicode St'at'imcets Unicode Skwxwumesh Unicode Shashishalhem Unicode Halq´eméylem Unicode Henqeminem Unicode Klallam Unicode Lushootseed Unicode Nle'kepmxcin Unicode Okanagan Unicode Secwepemctsín Read more…

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.