International keyboard layouts
Inspired by Steffens EurKEY, I wanted to see if I could fit an even broader approach into the amazing Voyager, while still keeping all symbols needed for daily use and programming, and without crazy layering.
Goals, and non-goals
The purpose of this project is to provide an ergonomic way to write language correctly, without weird keyboard shortcuts. This poses some challenges in a compact layout with only 43 assignable keys.
- Prioritize writing
- Place commonly used symbols in the easier locations
- Make it easy to write in multiple languages simultaneously
- Avoid Shift/AltGr-combos that are hard to reach
- Avoid mixing symbols and letters on the same key, so it's easier to re-arrange letters
Non-goals
- Remove deadkeys
- Be the be-all and end-all of keyboard layouts
- Create a new re-arrangement of letters (Use existing QWERTY, AZERTY, Colemak etc. instead)
Latin
Roughly based on ISO/IEC 8859, the layout covers most languages mentioned in the spec. Notably the non-latin languages are not covered. This should let you write nearly all latin-based languages outside of Asia and Africa.
Currency symbols are currently missing, and then especially $ is important for programming.
| ESC |
1
˜
#
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2
ˇ
<
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3
´
(
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4
`
)
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5
ˆ
>
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6
˚
{
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7
˘
[
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8
¯
]
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9
¨
}
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0
/
\
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?
―
¿
|
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⇥
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Q
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W
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E
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R
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T
þ
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Y
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U
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I
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O
œ
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P
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!
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¡
|
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⌫
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A
æ
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S
ß
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D
ð
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F
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G
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H
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J
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K
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L
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+
&
ș
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'
"
*
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⇧
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Z
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X
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C
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V
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B
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N
ŋ
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M
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,
;
¸
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.
:
˛
˙
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-
=
ț
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⇧
|
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⌘
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_
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↵
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⬒
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Other scripts
Currently this aims to cover all languages that uses the latin script. I aim to make separate versions for other scripts and regions with the same setup for symbols, so it's seamless to switch between.