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 Read more…
Over the years, we've received a lot of support cases that look like this: How do I type iota-subscript on your Greek keyboard? My hardware doesn't have a ¦ key. If you've written in with this question before, you know 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
Keyman Desktop works hard to make Right-to-left (RTL) languages such as Arabic and Hebrew work as seamlessly as possible in Windows. But even with all the work Keyman Desktop does, there are a few things that you need to know Read more…
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 Read more…
Keyman Developer 8.0 includes the facility to create a combined keyboard and Keyman Desktop installer. Here's a quick walkthrough on how to do this.
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 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 Keyman keyboard language has two basic types of keyboard layout: positional and mnemonic. In this blog post, I describe the differences between these two types of keyboard layouts, along with notes on now to develop the two layout types.