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The “international niamey keyboard” Layout Peter Constable, 2003-05-16; 12778 reads

Describes the “international niamey keyboard” layout proposed by Mann and Dalby.

Presentations and working papers in the area of input Lorna A. Priest, 2004-09-29; 7885 reads

This page contains various papers on input related issues which have been presented at conferences.

An introduction to keyboard design theory: What goes where? Martin Hosken, 2003-02-17; 48835 reads

Designing a keyboard is relatively easy: you just allocate codepoints to keystrokes. The difficulty comes when trying to decide what codepoints to assign to what keystrokes. Do you design based around the characters on the keytops of a user's keyboard or the relative position of the keys? What do you do if you want to be able to type more characters than there are keys in your keyboard?

SILConverters 3.0 Bob Eaton, Mark Penny, 2009-10-06; 196 reads

This package provides tools through which you can change the encoding, font, and/or script of text in Microsoft Word and other Office documents, XML documents, and SFM text and lexicon documents. It also installs a system-wide repository to manage your encoding converters and transliterators (TECkit, CC, ICU, Perl, or Python-based, as well as support for adding custom transduction engines).

Tai Dam Keyboards Jim Brase, 2009-09-22; 310 reads

Two Tai Dam keyboard layouts are provided for keying text in the Tai Viet script.

Ukelele John Brownie, 2009-06-08; 405983 reads

Ukelele is a Unicode keyboard layout editor for Mac OS X versions 10.2 and later. A maintenance release of Ukelele, version 1.8.4 (universal binary) is now available for download. This version works on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) as well as earlier versions.

Friendly Right-to-Left Editor (FRED) NRSI staff, 1999-08-27; 14924 reads

Tavultesoft Keyman Joan Wardell, 2007-04-23; 106658 reads

Keyman is a keyboard management utility that makes it practical to input many different languages in almost any Windows application. Keyman allows you to have arbitrarily long input sequences and to have diacritics typed after the base character.

Ukelele version history Jonathan Kew, 2005-12-02; 7498 reads

Release notes from older versions of the Ukelele tool.

KeyLayoutMaker: Jonathan Kew, 2006-06-01; 27034 reads

KeyLayoutMaker is a Perl script designed to create Mac OS X keyboard layout files, based on simple lists of keystrokes and required Unicode characters. It is particularly suited to creating layouts for syllabic scripts.

SILKey for Macintosh Jonathan Kew, 1998-03-11; 33435 reads

SILKey is a suite of programs that can be used to modify the behavior of the Macintosh keyboard when typing in any standard Macintosh word processor or other text-editing program. Written by Jonathan Kew, it is very similar to, but is not based on, the Keyman program for Windows.

Known Unicode Keyman Keyboards Lorna A. Priest, 2009-10-30; 31825 reads

This is a list of SIL Unicode Keyman keyboards as well as some other websites which have Unicode Keyman keyboards available for download.

IPA Unicode Keyboards Lorna A. Priest and Joan Wardell, 2009-06-04; 89791 reads

This page contains keyboards created for typing in IPA data.

On Windows, three keyboarding options are available: an IPA Keyman keyboard and keyboards which work through the Windows keyboarding system (MSKLC) for US and UK keyboard layouts. A third option is now available using the AutoHotkey program.

We also now provide an IPA keyboard for Linux as a debian package.

Installable keyboards for Mac OS X version 10.2, designed to allow entry of Unicode 5.0 IPA characters. Includes Dvorak version.

SIL Keyboarding Chart for Africa Lorna Priest, 2009-09-01; 9785 reads

IPA SIL keyboards for Mac OS X Joan Wardell, 2007-08-20; 55992 reads

Installable keyboards for Mac OS X version 10.2 and higher, designed to allow entry of Unicode 5.1 IPA characters. Includes Dvorak version.

Some tools and resources for character input 2009-02-16; 64198 reads

Links to useful tools for character input.

IPA Unicode Windows Keyboards - old versions Lorna A. Priest, 2008-05-16; 4629 reads

This page contains non-current versions of keyboards created for typing in IPA data on Windows machines.

Hebrew-Greek Transliteration Unicode Keyboard for Macintosh Joan Wardell, 2007-03-12; 6691 reads

A simplified transliteration scheme for typing Hebrew or Greek transliteration in Unicode applications, with layout based on the Macintosh U.S. extended keyboard.

Keyman Keyboards Lorna A. Priest, 2003-12-05; 13349 reads

Downloadable keyboard definitions, for use with Tavultesoft's Keyman software.

Legacy Fonts and Keyboards Lorna A Priest, 2003-09-24; 8586 reads

The fonts and keyboards on this page are considered "legacy" solutions. As such, they are made available for use and downloading, although Unicode solutions are encouraged.

Keyboard-related registry keys in Microsoft Windows Marc Durdin, 2001-08-19; 52062 reads

This document lists a number of registry keys and file types and locations that are used for keyboard management in Windows, and also some Keyman-specific settings.

Bible Translation & Literacy keyboard Lorna Priest, 2003-06-05; 7623 reads

This keyboard was developed for use by BTL (Bible Translation & Literacy) language teams in Kenya. It was originally created for customized fonts but has been updated for Unicode.

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