While on the topic of AddLanguageProfile – Vista changes the behaviour of this function. In Windows XP, it would install the TIP across the user’s currently installed languages, and just to be helpful, add Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, and Korean languages with the TIP installed for each of those Read more…
Some time ago, Michael Kaplan wrote about the Ctrl+Space hotkey and its broken configuration in Windows Vista. What is particularly evil about the Ctrl+Space combination is that takes control even when the language is not selected. So you can be happily typing away in US (English) or German (Austria) or Read more…
Yesterday we released Keyman 7! The excitement may have been somewhat overshadowed by a rather larger product release on the same day in the US, and ironically, an update to MSKLC was released on the same day. I’m not writing about the new features etc etc – if you want Read more…
I was asked via email this morning about the changing locale.xml file format between build 223 and build 224 of Keyman Desktop. I had meant to write an update on this blog for my previous post about the file format – so here it is. We reworked the locale.xml file Read more…
The Keyman Desktop 7.0 Beta 2 UI is now both customizable and localizable. Localization of the user interface is possible via editing a single XML file called locale.xml. The default locale.xml file is in the folder [Program Files]TavultesoftKeyman Desktop Professional 7.0xml First steps to creating a translation Find the language Read more…
I know I said I was going to write about the product management website – that will be coming soon. While reviewing the current functionality of the product management website (and I was actually getting ready for the blog post) we discovered a couple of issues, which I need to Read more…
I was editing a keyboard in Keyman Developer 6 today (European Latin) and after using the Character Map in version 6 for a few minutes started to hanker for the version 7 Character Map that I have been using for the last few weeks while preparing for Beta 1. In Read more…
We released the first beta of Keyman and Keyman Developer 7 on Friday and were very pleased by the number of people who asked to join the beta in the first day. They have already created 15 issue reports of high quality which is very encouraging (Join the beta). After Read more…