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The “international niamey keyboard” Layout Peter Constable, 2003-05-16; 18017 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; 12258 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; 63681 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?

Ukelele John Brownie, 2012-02-14; 732727 reads
Ukelele is a Unicode keyboard layout editor for Mac OS X versions 10.2 and later. Version 2.1.10 is available for download, and can be used on Mac OS X 10.4 and later. The previous stable release of Ukelele, version 1.8.4 (universal binary, for Mac OS X 10.2 and later) is still available for download. This version works on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) to 10.7 (Lion).

Friendly Right-to-Left Editor (FRED) NRSI staff, 1999-08-27; 20022 reads

Tavultesoft Keyman Joan Wardell, 2007-04-23; 134470 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.

KeyLayoutMaker: Jonathan Kew, 2006-06-01; 42684 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; 42685 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.

IPA Unicode Keyboards Lorna A. Priest and Joan Wardell, 2012-02-24; 167897 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.

Some tools and resources for character input 2010-11-10; 92485 reads
Links to useful tools for character input.

Known Unicode Keyman Keyboards Lorna A. Priest, 2011-05-28; 51806 reads
This is a list of SIL Unicode Keyman keyboards as well as some other websites which have Unicode Keyman keyboards available for download.

Tai Dam Keyboards Jim Brase, 2009-09-22; 5300 reads
Two Tai Dam keyboard layouts are provided for keying text in the Tai Viet script.

SIL Keyboarding Chart for Africa Lorna Priest, 2009-09-01; 21674 reads

IPA SIL keyboards for Mac OS X Joan Wardell, 2007-08-20; 88592 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.

IPA Unicode Windows Keyboards - old versions Lorna A. Priest, 2008-05-16; 9786 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; 12917 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; 21416 reads
Downloadable keyboard definitions, for use with Tavultesoft's Keyman software.

Legacy Fonts and Keyboards Lorna A Priest, 2003-09-24; 14101 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; 76220 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; 11353 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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