Over the last few months, you may have noticed a new help link popping up in Keyman keyboard searches: ScriptSource is a new initiative from the folks at SIL, designed to be a: "dynamic, collaborative reference to the writing systems of the world, with detailed information on scripts, characters, languages 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've added an official Dzongkha layout for Keyman Desktop and for KeymanWeb and we think you should be excited. Language, Script + Keyboard Dzongkha, the national language of Bhutan, is spoken by over 170,000 people worldwide. The language is written using the Tibetan script, which was developed from Devanagari in Read more…
We've just released an update to KeymanWeb 1.0 that includes fixes for a number of issues. This version is already live on www.keymanweb.com and KeymanWeb subscriptions. Internet Explorer 9 broke the On Screen Keyboard — when clicking on keys in the On Screen Keyboard, it would sometimes clear the whole Read more…
A common technique in web forms is to show a character count a-la Twitter to let the user know how many characters they have left before the field is full to the brim. Many examples online show how to update this counter with an onkeydown and/or an onkeyup event attached Read more…
Since 2004, the Tavultesoft website has had a reasonable degree of Unicode support. It’s been a bit of a mixed bag, with limitations in technology choices at the time making it hard for us to achieve the level of Unicode support we wanted. In particular, our database backend (Microsoft SQL Read more…
KeymanWeb 2.0 today entered beta! In this new version of KeymanWeb we have put a big effort into redesigning the internals, restructuring and designing the code according to modern JavaScript principles, and using many of the techniques that other major JavaScript libraries use today. As well as this, we have Read more…
Have you ever encountered an email with a puzzling J or L sitting in the middle of the text? I certainly have! Here's the story. Outlook (and Word), for many years now, has included an autocorrect feature that converts :-) into . Originally, this happy little smiley face was in Read more…
With the release of Firefox 3.5, all* the major browsers now support embeddable fonts – in one of two formats, TrueType/OpenType and EOT. This makes for a much smoother experience for visitors to multilingual websites. For an example, visit http://ethiopic.keymankeyboards.com/ on a machine without any Amharic/Ethiopic fonts installed, with IE6, Read more…