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Varady's Fabulous Flying Keyboard (Level 1)<\/p><\/div>\n

Behold my Flying Keyboard!<\/p>\n

Ever want a keyboard configuration you could switch to for odd characters\u203d You know, so you could add an \u1e24 in \u1e24anukah without copying and pasting from this page<\/a> (or your favorite “Character Viewer” program).<\/p>\n

Well I made such a keyboard configuration that you can download and install on your very own computer. (Only works for Windows OS, alas.) Download<\/a>, unzip and install. <\/p>\n

The keyboard layout includes glyphs mapped onto the universal and international standard Unicode character encoding schema<\/a>. You’ll have to use the layout along with a font (e.g. DejaVu Sans<\/a>, FreeSerif, etc..) that supports all of these glyphs. Such fonts come installed with the popular, cross-platform, free\/libre and open source LibreOffice<\/a> application.<\/p>\n

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Varady's Fabulous Flying Keyboard (Level 2)<\/p><\/div>\n

I was tired of using the Windows Character Viewer to access a number of useful character glyphs including the \u1e24. So I made my own keyboard layout using the proprietary but free-without-fee program called “Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator<\/a> v1.4.” (Windows only, although it’s also possible to do something similar for Macs and Linux.) If you want to hack the keyboard layout I made, I’ve included the layout in a directory named “source” in the zip which also includes the images above.<\/p>\n

Mac keyboard layouts are directly modifiable using a 3rd party free-without-fee tool called Ukelele<\/a>. Re: Linux, like much of the rest of the configuration on *nix type systems, keyboard layouts for the X Window System are defined in easily editable text files. See this page for more info<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

UPDATE: For Windows users, Steg adds this useful information, <\/p>\n

Go to your System Setttings and find the Language\/Keyboard settings and add the input method “U.S. Extended”. Then start using it. To type a \u1e24 type option-x and then H.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever want a keyboard configuration you could switch to for odd characters\u203d You know, so you could add an \u1e24 in \u1e24anukah without copying and pasting from this page<\/a> (or your favorite “Character Viewer” program). . . . → Continue reading: Varady’s Fabulous Flying Keyboard<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hacking","odd"],"yoast_head":"\nVarady's Fabulous Flying Keyboard • Aharon's Omphalos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ever want a keyboard configuration you could switch to for odd characters\u203d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2012\/01\/varadys-fabulous-flying-keyboard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Varady's Fabulous Flying Keyboard • Aharon's Omphalos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ever want a keyboard configuration you could switch to for odd characters\u203d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2012\/01\/varadys-fabulous-flying-keyboard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Aharon's Omphalos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/aharonium\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/aharonium\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-01-02T02:21:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-08-31T19:00:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Extended.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"792\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"343\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Aharon N. 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