12 Aug 2003

New Tibetan Unicode keyboards - FREEWARE
Linguasoft, Vienna, Austria
Supplied note: "Two new Tibetan Unicode keyboard drivers have just been uploaded for evaluation to the [...] Australian download site. These keyboards work with a keyboard driver named Keyman (downloadable from the same website) under MS Windows 2000 or later; to view the output, you also need to install the Arial Unicode MS font or one of the new Tibetan OpenType fonts currently under development at Microsoft, TCRC (Dharamsala) and elsewhere. Here is a short description of both keyboards: Tibetan Unicode (EWTS) v2 - uses an extended Turrell Wylie Romanization scheme (EWTS), an approach that avoids most uppercase keys and Alt- or Alt-Shift combinations when typing. Input strings are converted into Tibetan Unicode once a vowel is typed, or when a string is terminated by a space (= tsheg). Special rules apply for suffixes with 'a-chung, for shad after tsheg, for Sanskrit letters, and for 'long stacks'.
Tibetan Unicode (Direct Input) v2 - uses a mnemonic layout. To avoid Alt- or Alt-Shift combinations when typing, a modifier key is used to output glyphs with certain similarities. Sanskrit letters and "long stacks" are supported. See description for details.
NEW FEATURES IN VERSION 2 (applies to both EWTS & Direct Input keyboard:) 1/ Unicode direct input 2/ Menus for special symbols 3/ Help routine for dictionary lookups, etc. 4/ Toggles between Tibetan and Latin or Cyrillic mode. Both keyboards are FREEWARE, and your comments are welcomed. Your comments will help to improve functionality and to develop upgrades with even more useful features that reflect the real requirements of users. - peh."
[Tavultesoft is an Australian software company based in Hobart, Tasmania. The site provides keyboards for: Basic Lao; Georgian; Maori Tohutö macroniser; Tamil - TSCIIANJAL; Bengali; Greek Polytonic Unicode; Myanmar (WwBurmese); Tamil - eKalappai; Burmese VRI; Hawaiian; Pan-Sahelian; Tengwar; Cheyenne; Hindi; Persian (Farsi); The Heidelberg Input Solution; Classical Greek; Igbo Pitman ITA; Tibetan Unicode (Direct Input) v2; Classical Languages Unicode; Klavyeyen Kurdi; Quick French; Tibetan Unicode (EWTS) v2; Dinka MBSindhi; Runic; Yiddish Pasekh; Enhanced Lao; Maltese Unicode; SIL IPA 93; Yolngu; Esperanto AltGr; Maltese/Esperanto; Sanskrit CSX; Yoruba; Esperanto Cx; Maori - Te Nguta Kura macron; Sanskrit Unicode - ed.]
URL http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/downloads/keyboards/index.php
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