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 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 Read more…
This June we published a keyboard for the N'Ko script, a writing system designed in the 1940s to meet the needs of African languages. There are a number of exciting ways you can use the new N'Ko keyboard: Download to 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 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 Read more…
While Keyman Desktop 8.0 runs fine with traditional Windows applications, by default it will not run with Metro-style applications in Windows 8, due to added security restrictions. These restrictions prevent the Keyman Engine from reading settings and keyboards when switching Read more…
Have you ever wanted to type in Egyptian hieroglyphs? Today we've released a keyboard which will let you do just that. Christian Casey's Unicode Hieroglyphic keyboard allows you to type Ancient Egyptian on the web and in any application with Read more…
To make it even easier to find all our Ge’ez (Ethiopic) script keyboards, we’ve built a new Ge’ez minisite. In addition to 9 Ge’ez language keyboards, the site includes a FAQ with font help and links to our partner application, Read more…
As part of our roll out of minisites for feature languages, we are keen to announce a new page for Sinhala. The page gathers Sinhalese keyboards and partner applications in a single location for easy access. The Language Over 15,500,000 Read more…
Keyman Desktop includes a comprehensive API that allows you to control nearly every aspect of its behaviour. Today I’d like to focus on one small method of automating Keyman Desktop, that is, activating Keyman Desktop via script. The activation process Read more…