←
→
awahlbom: (Default)
Add MemoryShare This Entry

Linguistic joy

posted by [personal profile] awahlbom at 09:48pm on 10/06/2004 under ,
Yes! I have found a keyboard layout that's mainly identical to the Swedish-Finnish standard keyboard, but adds a number of very useful dead keys. No more trying to find non-Latin-1 special characters in small and blurry tables – if I want to add a hacek (or a caron, depending on whether you're a linguist or a typographer), I type alt-R and then the letter I want — useful if I want to talk about one of Laibach's best songs, “Država”. The slash in Stanisław Lem? Alt-L. Tōkyō? Alt-A. Well, I think it's cool!

I'm sitting on a train somewhere between Uppsala and Tierp, now passing through Örbyhus. I seriously like Bluetooth, you know...
Music:: Aviador Dro & L-Kan & La Monja Enana: ¡Que Mutada!
Mood:: 'content' content
←
→
There are 7 comments on this entry. (Reply.)
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] thette.livejournal.com at 07:43am on 12/06/2004
Oooh! Nifty!
[link] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] awahlbom.livejournal.com at 01:12am on 14/06/2004
Yes, isn't it? Now I just need to find an equivalent for Windows...
[link] [parent] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] thette.livejournal.com at 06:16am on 14/06/2004
Do tell me if you do. Although I've spent so much on accessories lately, I'll probably have to pass. :-(
[link] [parent] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] awahlbom.livejournal.com at 12:53am on 15/06/2004
What I'm looking for is a free layout, or some way to customise one myself. The "Finnish-Extended" that I'm using for OS X is part of Panther, and I have found freeware tools to edit them; I would find it rather strange if there weren't anything similar for Windows. (I'm not going to pay extra for what I see as standard equipment in a well-behaved OS.)

Anyway, I'll let you know.
[link] [parent] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] awahlbom.livejournal.com at 01:05am on 15/06/2004
Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator looks promising, although you have to install the .NET Framework before you can use it. At least it's free, and no matter what I may think of Microsoft, I have to hand it to them that most of the time their developer tools work well with Windows...

(Anders adores alliterations, yes.)
[link] [parent] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] awahlbom.livejournal.com at 01:13am on 15/06/2004
Possibly useful page: Unicode and Multilingual Support in HTML, Fonts, Web Browsers and Other Applications

Some day when I have plenty of time I will see what I can do on my Linux machine, but as I mainly use it as a server it's not as urgent as getting it to work for Mac and Windows.
[link] [parent] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] awahlbom.livejournal.com at 06:10am on 17/06/2004
I have experimented a bit now, and Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator seems to do what it's meant to do. As an experiment I added the caron as a dead key on AltGr-R, and it seems to work. (As an example: Dvorak made an alternative keyboard layout, Dvořák was a composer.) I'll add more characters I need over the weekend, but as a first test I consider it a success!

Unicode rocks, my friend, Unicode rocks. At least compared to 8-bit character sets.
[link] [parent] [reply]

October

SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
            1
 
2
 
 3
 
 4
 
 5
 
 6
 
 7
 
 8
 
9
 
 10
 
 11
 
 12
 
 13
 
 14
 
 15
 
16
 
 17
 
 18
 
 19
 
 20
1
 21
 
 22
 
23
 
 24
 
 25
 
 26
 
 27
 
 28
 
 29
 
30
 
 31