Clever Keyboards

Smart & Flexible

Keyman Desktop 8 keyboards are cleverly built to adapt to you:

Any Hardware Standard

Whether you're on QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY or any other standard, you can use your hardware keyboard with any Keyman keyboard.

Mnemonic Optimisation

Mnemonic or 'phonetic' Keyman keyboards take adaptation even further. Keys shift to match the layout and display of your hardware keyboard.
Keyboard Options

Keyboards with options give you even more control. With options you can type French accents first or last, Lao with or without spaces, or Tigrigna with Ethiopian or Eritrean punctuation, as you prefer.
Automatic Normalisation

Keyman keyboards are smart enough to handle character normalisation for you. Your data stays consistent however you typed that character.

Language-Specific Features

Many keyboards also come with language-specific features to make them smarter. For example:

Tibetan Stacking

Tibetan Unicode keyboards make it easy to build complex stacks.
Logical & Visual Tamil

Type Tamil as it's written or in logical order. We provide keyboards to suit either preference.
Chinese IME

A popup IME simplifies typing thousands of Chinese characters.
EuroLatin Usage Chart

EuroLatin comes with a clickable usage chart, allowing rapid access to any of the hundreds of characters included in the keyboard.
Lao Syllable Splitting

Lao keyboards split syllables behind the scenes, giving easy-to-search seamless text with correct line breaks.

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Uniscribe is a part of Windows that enables the correct display of Asian and African languages. Keyman's Uniscribe Manager extends Uniscribe to improve support on Windows XP.

The Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) refers to the portion of the Unicode code space which contains the most common scripts in use. Older computers often had trouble displaying characters that were in the Supplementary Planes and not in the BMP. Keyman Desktop enhances the availability of the Supplmentary Planes.

The Text Services Framework (TSF) is Microsoft's next-generation text input system, supported by Microsoft Word, and a number of other applications. It makes possible advanced text input systems. Keyman Desktop Professional has support for the TSF.

The Language Bar is Microsoft's tool for access to keyboard and language switching.

A mnemonic layout is a type of Keyman Desktop keyboard layout that tends to use phonetic-style input. It will dynamically rearrange to work cleanly with various European hardware keyboard layouts, including English QWERTY, French AZERTY or German QWERTZ layouts.

Normalisation is a process of ensuring text is stored consistently in your document, for instance to make sure diacritic marks are stored in a consistent way. This makes future searching or editing of text useful and straightforward.

An Input Method Editor (IME) provides an on screen interface for selecting words or phrases while typing. IMEs are commonly used with languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean.