Comments on: Magic Keyboard!

Magic Keyboard!

anticlock — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:31:46 -0800

By: IronLizard

IronLizard — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:39:23 -0800

Sweet, now I can type my last name correctly.

By: aliasless

aliasless — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:40:21 -0800

I've always wondered what Chinese keyboards look like. And apparently, here's how they are used. Via this excellent comment.

By: pmbuko

pmbuko — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:50:40 -0800

Њелл, исн'т тхис јуст дандѕ?

By: the cydonian

the cydonian — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:05:03 -0800

Unfortunately, it is also wrong for my mother tongue, Telugu. Shift + : is not థ, but ఠ.

By: Poagao

Poagao — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:19:22 -0800

早就有這個功能了, 謝謝

By: liquorice

liquorice — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 01:41:18 -0800

க ைகேப ிதீ ஸதீா ஜோலமோகாே.

By: zardoz

zardoz — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 01:44:54 -0800

This is just what I need to type Japanese (as the Windows text input doesn't work for me for some wonky reason). Problem is this thing doesn't type the normal hiragana syllabary, but they've created a clunky custom key setup that's impossible to use. Great idea, though.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:03:46 -0800

ب ہمسھ ٹہھ تغھموپ نھھیبغل ٹہمٹ ب'سھ اتوٹ بغوتیٹھر وجعھجغھ'و عجٹہھد صہبیھ ٹپحبغل ٹہبو۔

By: twine42

twine42 — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:17:10 -0800

I was ready to be impressed, but it doesn't even feature a UK keyboard layout...

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:27:56 -0800

I find it's much easier to just use the operating system's native ability to switch input methods (and sometimes keyboard layouts). On OS X it is easy as pissing a hole in the snow. On windows it's somewhat harder (not installed by default, also mediocre, bastards), but way better than this thing.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:15:44 -0800

way better than this thing For you, maybe, but not for me (or, apparently, lots of other people). Besides, didn't you read the explanation at the page? "The need for this site arose due to the lack of possibility to change the keyboard language at internet places around the world. These places usually allow you to view sites in your language due to IE language encoding, but don't allow you to type in your language (because of administrator or system limitations)." I love it—thanks, anticlock!

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:42:01 -0800

Thank you so much for this link. It will help immensely when our foreign exchange students are visiting and they want to email home or just read the news of their countries at one of their own countries' sites.

By: elmwood

elmwood — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:47:07 -0800

Feh. The control key is still not where God intended it to be placed, to the left of the "A" key where the shift lock key is now placed.

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:09:48 -0800

How do so many people get along without an @ sign on their keyboards? I went to the exemplar boards for languages I'd suffered through previously and they weren't where I'd expected them to be if there at all. Was I just using internet-friendly keyboards this whole time or are the online ones missing something key?

By: the cydonian

the cydonian — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:25:08 -0800

Ogre Lawless: Most Indic keyboards don't have the complete set of punctuation marks. This is because Brahmi-based scripts already have 80+ letters, and 65000 possible variations on glyphs, so there isn't much space left on a keyboard with 101 characters. We generally switch back to US 101/ QWERTY to type quotations, exclamation marks and such.