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…
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…
While things have appeared to be quiet at Tavultesoft over the last 2 months, we've been very busy working on a number of projects. One area I have been heavily involved in is working through bug reports and crash reports for Keyman Desktop 8.0. We did a lot of work Read more…
Keyman Desktop 8.0.332.0 Beta release addresses two reported issues: * Keyman Desktop 8.0 is not working with legacy applications that require WM_UNICHAR for Unicode input (regression from 7.1) * If a non-Latin script keyboard or IME is the default input method for Windows, then Keyman Desktop keyboard layouts may not operate correctly
Three small updates to the Keyman Desktop 8.0 keyboard options feature are proposed: testing for base layout, on screen keyboard-specific rules, and providing feedback to the end user.
Introduction Keyman 8.0 improved mnemonic keyboards by remapping the On Screen Keyboard to the underlying hardware layout. Previous versions of Keyman did not do this well. This has been a big improvement and makes mnemonic keyboards much more useful with European hardware layouts. However, apart from this one change, we 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…