Tastaturoppsett / Keyboard layouts

Dingbats: accesses the characters in the Dingbats Unicode block
Symbol: accesses the characters in the Symbol font
IPA keyboard: a phonetic keyboard layout
Utvida norsk: an extended Norwegian keyboard layout, explained mainly in Norwegian, but with a summary in English


Dingbats keyboard layout:

Download version 1.0.1 (July 27 2004, 67 kB)

System requirement: MacOS X 10.2 or newer.
In Unicode-savvy applications for MacOS X the characters of the Dingbats block are accessed not by simply changing to the Dingbats font, but by changing the keyboard layout or selecting the characters from the Character Pallette. This keyboard layout accesses the characters in the Dingbats Unicode block (and a few more, in order to cover all the characters of the Zapf Dingbats font, version 4.1d1e2, as distributed with MacOS X 10.3).


Symbol keyboard layout:

Download version 1.0 (May 25 2004, 66 kB)

System requirement: MacOS X 10.2 or newer.
In Unicode-savvy applications for MacOS X the characters of the Symbol font are accessed not by simply changing the font, but by changing the keyboard layout or selecting the characters from the Character Pallette. The Greek keyboard layout gives us the Greek letters, but not the arrows, mathematical operators etc. The Symbol keyboard layout does.


IPA keyboard layout:

Download version 1.0 (July 27 2004, 102 kB)

System requirement: MacOS X 10.2 or newer.
Drop the .keylayout and .icns files into your "~/Library/Keyboard Layouts" folder. Then log out, log in again, and find "IPA keyboard" in your keyboard menu.

Do you have problems downloading? Is the file shown on your screen instead of being downloaded to your disk? Hold down the Option key while clicking, or control-click and choose "download to disk" or similar.

A popular IPA font is Doulos SIL, provided by SIL.


Utvida norsk tastaturoppsett:

Last ned versjon 2.0 (3.9.2008) (170 kB)

Summary in English: This is an extended Norwegian keyboard layout, but it is not identical to Apple's "Norwegian Extended", which was introduced some nine months later than the first version of this one. You'll need a physical ISO keyboard in order to make full use of "Utvida norsk".

There are two versions of the keyboard layout: "Utvida norsk" and "Utvida norsk-". The difference between them is simply where the characters « » < > ≤ ≥ are placed. In "Utvida norsk-" they are on the same keys and key combination as in the standard Norwegian keyboard layout from Apple, in "Utvida norsk" the characters « and » are more easily accessible.

«Utvida norsk» er ikkje det same som Apples «Norsk utvidet». Sistnemnde kom ni månader etter den fyrste versjonen av «Utvida norsk». Du vil trenga eit fysisk ISO-tastatur for å gjera deg full nytte av «Utvida norsk». Har du eit norsk tastatur med æ, ø og å på tastane, er det nettopp eit ISO-tastatur du har. :)

Det finst to versjonar her: «Utvida norsk» og «Utvida norsk-». Grunnen er at eg bruker teikna « og » oftare enn eg bruker < og >, og då vil eg gjerne ha « og » på ein lett tilgjengeleg stad. Skilnaden mellom dei to tastaturoppsetta er at i «Utvida norsk-» ligg « » < > ≤ ≥ på dei vanlege plassane sine, i «Utvida norsk» ligg « og » på den tasten som på det fysiske norske tastaturet har teikna < og >.

Endringar i versjon 2.0: