We have just released Keyman 11.0 for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and web, as well as Keyman Developer, the keyboard development suite. Keyman for Linux is entirely new for version 11. For the other platforms, our priority has been on fixing issues and improving stability, rather than introducing lots Read more…
Background It recently came to our attention that under Windows 10 1803 and Windows 10 1809, Keyman keyboards simply do not work when associated with Amharic or Sinhala languages, and sometimes do not work with Tigrinya. We have done a careful investigation and believe the issue to be within Windows Read more…
We report all issues in Windows that impact Keyman to Microsoft. If a particular issue impacts you, it is very helpful to “upvote” the issue or add further comments about the issue in the Feedback Hub which is a part of Windows 10. However, you can only do this once Read more…
SIL International is very pleased to announce that Keyman is now completely free and open source! Today, 23 August 2017, we released free versions of the existing Keyman products on the Keyman website, and have simultaneously launched our open source version of Keyman on GitHub. Keyman is a complex product Read more…
This is a quick technical note on different ways to activate Keyman Desktop for system administrators. Activation using a command line tool The simplest way is using the command line for kmshell.exe (located in Program Files (x86)TavultesoftKeyman Desktop 8.0): kmshell.exe -activate <key> [-s] Details on kmshell commands can be found on Read more…
Some Keyman users have recently brought to our attention inconsistencies in the appearance of Malayalam text when viewed with different fonts. Although this has become more apparent with the release of new versions of Keyman Desktop and Windows, it is actually a problem with the way different fonts are rendered, Read more…
This is just a short blog post to describe our in-house tool for creating key images, such as the ones shown below. How to use the key image generator Visit http://keyman.com/support/keytemplate.php Type the key sequence you wish to use, such as Ctrl+Alt+C Backspace. You can use any Unicode character on Read more…
For many years, Keyman Desktop has adapted layouts to work more accurately with European hardware keyboards. For example, a US English keyboard has a top alphabetic row of QWERTYUIOP, but a French keyboard has instead AZERTYUIOP. Keyman makes sure that if, for example, you are typing Greek on a French hardware Read more…
Test or install the Urdu Touch keyboard The recent availability of Google’s Noto Nastaliq Urdu Draft font has made it possible to render Urdu correctly (and beautifully!) on touch devices as well as on desktop computers. We had a number of Urdu keyboard layouts designed for desktop computers. We did Read more…
I recently discovered a number of comments on our blog that had gone unnoticed, and for which we received no notification. I’m sorry: I want to respond to all the comments and questions. Now that I’ve found the comments, I’ll respond here, even though it’s really too late! Obviously, we’ll Read more…