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IPA SIL keyboards for Mac OS X

Joan Wardell, 2007-08-20; 85128 reads

Mac OS X Keyboards

These downloads contain Macintosh keyboards for typing IPA characters, compatible with Unicode 5.1. These keyboards are for Mac OS X and above. Documentation is included in some packages.

IPA Unicode 5.1 Macintosh Keyboard v1.4

This software and documentation is distributed as freeware. You may modify it, but please change the filename(s).

Note

The IPA Unicode 5 Macintosh Keyboard in its present state is specific to the “Doulos SIL” and "Charis SIL" fonts, in that it references characters in the private use area. In future releases of Doulos SIL and Charis SIL, a number of these characters are expected to appear in standard positions according to the newest Unicode specification, and the keyboard (and encodings of any documents using those characters) will have to be changed accordingly. This does not, of course, affect standard (non-PUA) Unicode IPA characters. The keyboard now supports Unicode 5.1.

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The IPA Unicode 5.1 Macintosh Keyboard layout is based upon the IPA MSKLC Keyboard layout found here: IPA Unicode Keyboards.

IPA Unicode 5.1 Macintosh Keyboard v1.4
Joan Wardell, 2009-06-02
Download "IPA-MACkbd.dmg", Mac OS X disk image, 832KB [25170 downloads]

Below are the source files if you wish to adapt the Macintosh keyboard or documentation for your own use. The application for creating the keyboard is KeyLayoutMaker: or Ukelele. See Related Packages.

IPA Unicode 5.1(v1.4) MAC keyboard sources
Joan Wardell, 2009-06-02
Download "IPA-MACSource.dmg", Mac OS X disk image, 183KB [5001 downloads]

Other Mac OS X Keyboards

Dvorak layout of the above keyboard. Unzip and drop in ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts/. No documentation. Use the Macintosh Show Keyboard Viewer to see layout.

IPA Unicode 5.1(v1.4) Dvorak.keylayout
Joan Wardell, 2009-06-02
Download "IPA_Dvorak.dmg", Mac OS X disk image, 34KB [3403 downloads]

IPAkeys IPA Unicode keyboard layout for Mac OS X.

IPA Palette IPA Unicode Input Method for Mac OS X 10.2 (‘Jaguar’) and later. A free Unicode character palette input method for the International Phonetic Alphabet. This palette is compatible with the Hiragino font shipped with Mac OS, the (Doulos SIL) font supplied by SIL, and other IPA Unicode fonts. The software enables point-and-click character entry into Unicode-compliant software under Mac OS X.

Related Mac OS X Resources

KeyLayoutMaker: Jonathan Kew, 2006-06-01; 41469 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.

Ukelele John Brownie; 699747 reads

Ukelele is a Unicode keyboard layout editor for Mac OS X versions 10.2 and later. Version 2.1.9 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).

Page History for Mac OS X Keyboards

2009-06-02 JW: both v1.4 updated 4 PUA characters to Unicode 5.1 and corrected to add barred-o on =O. Dvorak now has barred-o on ~s
2008-12-12 JW: v1.3 updated for Leopard
2008-04-01 JW: added Lane Schwartz' Dvorak keyboard
2007-08-20 JW: v1.2 corrected documentation for right hook to [
2007-08-17 JW: v1.2 corrected =# to match documentation
2007-06-15 JW: v1.1 corrected |z |Z to match documentation, installation instructions
2007-06-04 LP: removed version number of IPA MSKLC
2004-03-17 JK: Page creation

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"Michael Covarrubias", Tue, Sep 8, 2009 20:53 (EDT)
IPA Palette

Is there any known issue with IPA Palette in Snow Leopard? I had installed it in leopard and it worked without a problem. In Snow Leopard it does not show up when chosen from the input menu.

Are there plans to make it SL compatible?

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martinpk, Wed, Sep 9, 2009 04:26 (EDT)
Re: IPA Palette

Hi Michael,

IPA Palette is developed by Brian Hall. You can contact him via his website, www.blugs.com for more information on Snow Leopard compatibility.

Peter

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"spencer", Wed, Sep 23, 2009 21:59 (EDT)
Re: IPA Palette

There is only one bug I've noticed: the palette doesn't work for 64-bit applications. If you want to use the palette in 64-bit applications, you have to open the application in 32-bit mode. To do this go to Finder, right-click the application and select "Get Info" (or select the application and press command-I). There should be a checkbox labeled "Open in 32-bit mode". Check it, close the info window, and (re)open the application. The IPA palette should work now!

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"Brian "Moses" Hall", Mon, Oct 31, 2011 18:46 (EDT)
Re: IPA Palette

I am the developer of IPA Palette, and it has been Snow Leopard compatible since version 2.0; I use it all the time on SL. Thx.

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"Brian "Moses" Hall", Mon, Jun 28, 2010 16:07 (EDT)
Re: IPA Palette

IPA Palette 2.0 beta 3 is out now; I have Snow Leopard on my home machine and it works fine.

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"Brian "Moses" Hall", Wed, Aug 18, 2010 17:36 (EDT)
IPA Palette

Hi, I'm the author of IPA Palette. Snow Leopard was troublesome because it went all "64-bit crazy" which required a new version of IPA Palette based a new input method architecture (IMKit). Version 2.0 is in late beta and I (and others) use it regularly on Leopard and Snow Leopard. I believe it is faster and more stable than 1.X. Thanks.

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"Faisal ", Mon, Oct 18, 2010 18:39 (EDT)
IPA Palette

When you right click it and hit "Go To " I dont get a an option of a box with 32 bit resolution.

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"Andreas Kröhnke", Tue, Oct 4, 2011 16:46 (EDT)
CTRL modifiers

The Dvorak keyboard is missing the CTRL modifiers from QWERTY layouts. This makes it impossible to use with MacVim for example.

I don't know how to fix this easily. Any thoughts?

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