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…
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…
As part of the Keyman Desktop 8.0 release work, we needed to give the Tavultesoft website some attention: the pages were looking dated, and the content had grown over time and was getting out of control. The Tavultesoft website has thousands of pages of content, and finding the right content Read more…
Today we had a meeting to finalise the default options for Keyman Desktop 8.0, and determine how we would migrate option settings when upgrading from earlier versions of Keyman Desktop. For those of you who are interested, I reproduce the table below. Any comments or suggestions are always welcomed! Option Read more…
Adobe recently released a secured version of Reader which includes a new security feature called sandboxing. A sandbox restricts the privileges of the PDF viewer built into Adobe Reader to access computer resources, which in turn helps to reduce the impact of as-yet undiscovered security flaws in the PDF viewer, Read more…