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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5568 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 2673 of 3737 21 October 2012 at 10:15pm | IP Logged | ||
This is what it looks like. As you can see, it's based not on the QWERTY layout (originally designed to slow down typing on typewriters to prevent them getting jammed), but on the much more efficient Dvorak layout. Note that the cedilla key doubles as the ogonek.  Edited by Levi on 21 October 2012 at 10:41pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2674 of 3737 21 October 2012 at 10:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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I just use abcTajpu:)
here's my substitution list: X=Ç|C=Ć|J=Č|A=Ã|M=Ñ|L=Ł|P=Ø|a=ã|x=ç|c=ć|j=č|E=Ę| Q=Ą|O=Õ|o=õ|p=ø|m=ñ|d=ś|D=Ś|e=ę|q=ą|l=ł|v=ź|V=Ź| Z=Ż|z=ż|h=♥|n=ń|N=Ń|ö=>|,=<|ж=>|б=< (you type the letter and then you press a hotkey to change it) many of these are arranged by proximity (e.g. those for c, z), j is č because i mostly need it for the name Kranjčar as of now :-) The layouts I have set are Finnish and Russian, but the physical keyboards sold in Finland have one extra key >_< so I needed a way to type those squared brackets. I was planning to make a custom layout one day, but typing a letter and then F12 is easier than typing AltGr+letter, imo. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7157 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 2675 of 3737 21 October 2012 at 11:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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That looks promising, Levi. Thanks. I'll look into it.
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| TheMatthias Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6247 days ago 105 posts - 124 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin | Message 2676 of 3737 22 October 2012 at 12:57am | IP Logged | ||
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Super easy to change keyboard on a Mac
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| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4874 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 2677 of 3737 22 October 2012 at 1:20am | IP Logged | ||
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^It's relatively easy on Windows too, so no need to be an elitist...
I don't get the keyboard layout editor to work. It doesn't show a keyboard at all.. perhaps I've got the wrong version of .net or something. (I'm running win764bit) 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5568 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 2678 of 3737 22 October 2012 at 1:39am | IP Logged | ||
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That's unfortunate. Microsoft hasn't updated the software in many, many years, and no longer even provides technical support for it. Nor is there any kind of open-source alternative that I've been able to find.
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| overscore Triglot Newbie CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4564 days ago 23 posts - 38 votes Speaks: French*, English, German | Message 2679 of 3737 22 October 2012 at 4:04am | IP Logged | ||
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I use Colemak. It is an efficient keyboard layout with support for all European
languages, and then more. I believe it is more comfortable than Dvorak too, since it won't kill your pinky finger. 
http://bit.ly/PLdP3r With some training you can type pretty fast in other languages. This layout comes bundled with OS X and Linux by default, on Windows you need to install it. Edited by overscore on 22 October 2012 at 4:06am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4829 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2680 of 3737 22 October 2012 at 3:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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The whole Qwerty vs Dvorak story may possibly be an urban myth
On the other hand, I've learned to be as skeptical of some of the myth-busters as of the myths. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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