There is lots of good news about keyboards in Mac OS X 10.2, none of
which I'm allowed to discuss until August 24, unfortunately. If you
have signed an Apple non-disclosure agreement, write me privately and
I'll blab about all of it. :-) I will be discussing all this and more
at the San Jose Unicode conference, which, thankfully, is after August
24.
I will try to post something on August 24 giving the basics.
Deborah Goldsmith
Manager, Fonts & Unicode
Apple Computer, Inc.
goldsmit@apple.com
On Thursday, August 15, 2002, at 02:13 PM, Alex Eulenberg wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Michael Everson wrote:
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>> Apple have made no official announcements about what keyboards will
>> be included in the next or future releases of OS X.
> ...
>> More good news: I hope to be releasing soon an OS X Unicode keyboard
>> layout for Ogham, and of course I am developing OS X keyboard layouts
>> with support for Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, and Cornish.
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> Michael,
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> What do you (plan to) use to create your Unicode layouts for Mac OS?
> ResEdit only lets you edit 8-bit layouts ('KCHR' resource). The only
> tool
> I know of to create Mac OS Unicode layouts ('uchr' resources) is my own
> (free) web application, at
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> http://wordherd.com/keyboards/
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> On a related note I wonder if anyone can tell me whether the new Mac OS
> 10.2 "Jaguar" lets you drag and drop, or otherwise easily add custom
> keyboard layouts, like with version 9 and previous, or whether you
> still
> have to jump into Terminal and make an unsupported hack to the Human
> Interface Toolbox system files.
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> --Alex
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