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Installable keyboards for SC UniPad




Here you can download some of the user-defined keyboards I’ve created for SC UniPad, a plain-text Unicode editor for Windows developed by Sharmahd Computing. All of these keyboards are completely free. They are individually wrapped in Zip files, none larger than 3,000 bytes.

I have no professional affiliation with, or financial interest in, Sharmahd Computing, but I am a big supporter of SC UniPad and encourage Windows users to try it—especially users of Windows 95 and 98, which provide scant user-level support for Unicode.

These keyboards are only for use with SC UniPad. They won’t work anywhere else.



Afghan Dari
Afghan Pashto
Afghan Uzbek

These keyboards comply with the Computer Locale Requirements for Afghanistan commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme and developed by Michael Everson and Roozbeh Pournader.

African

This sample African keyboard was presented in 2003 by Lorna Priest of SIL International. See also Niamey Extended.

APL

A full APL keyboard, based on the APL Union layout and checked against the ISO/IEC “APL Character Repertoire” standard.

Braille

Maps the Braille symbols to the standard English (U.S.) layout, using the popular Braille ASCII scheme.

Cimarosti

A “hypothetical pan-European Latin keyboard” created by Marco Cimarosti in 2002.

CP-437 Line Drawing

Covers the box-drawing characters and block elements from MS-DOS code page 437. Use this with the fixed-width font provided in UniPad.

Deseret

Not for Mormons only! Supports the Deseret Alphabet encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

English (Fullwidth)

Just like the regular English (U.S.) layout, but covers the “fullwidth” characters encoded in the U+FFxx block. Sort of a toy, really.

IPA

Supports the International Phonetic Alphabet. Suggestions for improving this keyboard are especially welcome.

Korean

Use this three-set “Kong” keyboard together with the “Compose Hangul Jamos” option in SC UniPad to generate precomposed Korean syllables.

Niamey Extended

An extended version of the “International Niamey Keyboard” proposed in 1987 to provide pan-African support. Unlike the original, this layout includes CAPITAL LETTERS. See also African.

Philippine

Supports the four Philippine scripts (Tagalog, Hanunóo, Buhid, Tagbanwa) using a QWERTY-like mapping. Another toy.

Plane 14 Tags

Maps the Plane 14 tag characters onto the English (U.S.) keyboard. Warning: Use of Plane 14 tags .

Shavian

Be the first on your block! Supports the Shavian alphabet first encoded in Unicode 4.0. Based on “key bindings” established by Ross DeMeyere. Requires UniPad 1.10 or above.

Swedish (SS 66 22 41)

Supports the Swedish national standard.

Tsalagi

An alternative Cherokee keyboard, based on the public-domain font designed by Joan Sarah Touzet.


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