International keyboard layouts

Inspired by Steffens EurKEY, I wanted to see if the compact Voyager could fit even more languages, 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 where I've only left 43 keys "assignable".

• Prioritize writing
• Place commonly used symbols in every language in the more accessible locations (¿ in Spanish as an example)
• 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 (QWERTY, Colemak, etc.)
• Group symbols in a natural way, to instinctively know where to look

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

This layout should let you write nearly all latin-based languages outside of Asia and Africa. It's constantly evolving and I plan to relase layout files for all OSes once it's a bit more settled.

The accompanying config for the Voyager can be found at the oryx page

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.