When we started planning version 2.0 of KeymanWeb, we had a couple of major objectives. First, we wanted to clean up a big chunk of code that had grown beyond its original design and was getting very difficult to maintain and extend. And second, we knew that touch devices – Read more…
We recently submitted Keyman Desktop for Windows 8 certification, continuing our tradition of Microsoft compatibility. The Windows 8 certification program was designed to help consumers identify apps that work well with Windows 8 devices. It shows that Keyman Desktop is an important part of the Windows experience. This means that 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…
I'm excited to announce that I (Marc Durdin) will be presenting at the Internationalization and Unicode Conference 36 in October, on the topic "From Typewriter to Touch: Multi Platform Keyboards — Challenges and Illustrations". I will be walking through a number of the complexities and challenges that may not be Read more…
For those of you with a web programming bent, the following may be of interest. We now have 2 APIs available for accessing the Keyman Desktop and KeymanWeb keyboard catalogues. Both APIs are RESTful and return UTF-8 JSON format data only in their initial incarnation. Update 18 Dec 2019: These Read more…
We have had a number of reports of the Enter key not working in Chrome while Keyman Desktop is active. I took on the task of investigating this issue and here's how it panned out. Note: this post will be quite technical so if that doesn't interest you, do feel Read more…