I believe SIL also builds in Keyman compatability to most of their tools. It works very nicely with Fieldworks, for example.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Keola Donaghy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donaghy@hawaii.edu">donaghy@hawaii.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Aloha. We used to use it, they developed a Hawaiian keyboard for us and it worked well. Occasionally there were issues with new versions of windows, but they generally got them fixed fairly quickly. Once I found the Microsoft Keyboard Creator and made a keyboard with that we stopped using Keyman.<div>

<br></div><div>Keola<br><div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><div><div>On 2011 ʻAu. 24, at 02:34, Elizabeth J. Pyatt wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><blockquote type="cite">

<br>ILAT Note: Do you use Keyman?<br></blockquote><br><br>FYI - Keyman is a reputable vendor in the industry, and I've installed some of these utilities on my computer without any difficulty.<br><br>They provide a free plugin for Windows users who can then download keyboard utilities for various languages. Keyman makes its income by selling the development software to create the keyboard.<br>

<br>Many utilities are offered for free or very low cost by individual developers as a way to encourage computing in different languages.<br><br>Hope this is useful information.<br>On Aug 24, 2011, at 3:24 AM, ILAT automatic digest system wrote:<br>

<br><blockquote type="cite">Date:    Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:25:02 -0700<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">From:    Phillip E Cash Cash <<a href="mailto:cashcash@EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU" target="_blank">cashcash@EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU</a>><br>

</blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Subject: Virtual Keyboards for Over 1,000 Languages - Keyman Desktop (fwd link)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Virtual Keyboards for Over 1,000 Languages - Keyman Desktop<br>

</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">HOBART, Australia, Aug. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Tavultesoft, an<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Australian company, is currently leading the world in enabling<br>

</blockquote><blockquote type="cite">communication through multilingual keyboards.  Thanks to their ongoing<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">efforts, minority communities around the world can participate in the<br>

</blockquote><blockquote type="cite">electronic age in their native tongue.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Tavultesoft's Keyman Desktop product enables text input in over 1,000<br>

</blockquote><blockquote type="cite">languages.  Their market leading, multilingual, virtual keyboard<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">software allows users to type in the language of their choice using<br></blockquote>

<blockquote type="cite">their existing keyboard.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Keyman Desktop allows users to effectively write using a computer in<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">

their own language.  With the last native speaker of a language dying<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">every two weeks, Keyman Desktop has become a critical tool in the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">preservation of languages and cultural diversity.<br>

</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Access full article below:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/virtual-keyboards-for-over-1000-languages---keyman-desktop-128237228.html" target="_blank">http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/virtual-keyboards-for-over-1000-languages---keyman-desktop-128237228.html</a><br>

</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">~~~<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<br>Elizabeth J. Pyatt, Ph.D.<br>Instructional Designer<br>

Education Technology Services, TLT/ITS<br>Penn State University<br><a href="mailto:ejp10@psu.edu" target="_blank">ejp10@psu.edu</a>, <a href="tel:%28814%29%20865-0805" value="+18148650805" target="_blank">(814) 865-0805</a> or <a href="tel:%28814%29%20865-2030" value="+18148652030" target="_blank">(814) 865-2030</a> (Main Office)<br>

<br>210 Rider Building  (formerly Rider II)<br>227 W. Beaver Avenue<br>State College, PA   16801-4819<br><a href="http://www.personal.psu.edu/ejp10/psu" target="_blank">http://www.personal.psu.edu/ejp10/psu</a><br><a href="http://tlt.psu.edu/" target="_blank">http://tlt.psu.edu</a></span></blockquote>

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