Chapter 2: It’s your keyboard!
The keyboard seems like a simple device. But the letters written on your physical keyboard do not always correspond to what appears on your screen when you press them: it is a question of mapping the physical keys to characters using something called keyboard layouts. We will see in this chapter how you can use different keyboard layouts for different languages and we will also look at other ways to enter text than just the keyboard.
You can read the chapter in Irish in the printed book »
Chapter contents
- The keyboard
- How to change your keyboard layout
- Language and keyboard
- How to type on different keyboard layouts
- Irish
- English
- Other languages
- How many keystrokes do you need to type one character?
- Symbols not on the keyboard
- Character pickers
- Numeric codes
EXTERNAL LINKS
General advice on writing in Irish
"Clóscríobh" (scríobh.ie)
Changing your keyboard layout
How to change your keyboard layout (Windows)
How to Change Keyboard Layout in Ubuntu (Linux)
How to change your keyboard layout - Mac OS X
How to Change the Keyboard Layout in iOS (iPhone, iPad)
Android Keyboard Settings - How to add, change, customize your Android keyboard
Build your own keyboard layout
Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator
Custom-built keyboard for the Irish language
MC-105U1 Méarchlár don Ghaeilge (Dúrud Teoranta)
Character pickers
Character Map (Windows)
Character Map (Ubuntu Linux)
Unicode character pickers (Richard Ishida)
