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“DSL KeyPad” is a utility written on AutoHotkey 2.0, designed for inputting a wide range of characters using hotkeys and auxiliary functions. Its primary focus is on enhancing input capabilities for Latin and Cyrillic scripts, allowing typing in multiple languages without the need for separate keyboard layouts for each language. Requires common QWERTY (English US)/ЙЦУКЕН (Russian) keyboard layouts.
More than 6,300 Unicode characters are available.
Additionaly, it supports typing on the Germanic Runes, Glagolitic, Old Turkic, Old Permic, Phoenician, Carian, Lycian, Ugaritic etc.
KNOWN ISSUES:
• “Compose” mode bind does not work on AHK 2.0.22 version and above, use AHK 2.0.21 before release next DSL KeyPad Update.
• Default EN US keyboard: Right Alt combinations does not work, will fixed on next release.
Features
- Support for a wide range of Unicode symbols
- Key combinations for typing non-standard letters/symbols (e.g., Ă Â Å Ą Ä Ā Ã Á À Ȁ, ¡¿‽⸘×∞⟨⟩∓±≠, ←↑↓→↖↗↙↘↕↔, etc.)
- Compositing mode that allows typing an extended range, converts sequence to an result (e.g., AE → Æ, ΣΤ → Ϛ, ІѦ → Ѩ, ДЧ → Ԭ, etc.), and allows the user to input a code (e.g., A+0–255/0255 or U+0000–10FFFF) to obtain the corresponding symbol (Compose key is RAlt×2)
- “Alternative modes” that allow typing in included (mostly) non-Latin and Cyrillic scripts:
- International Phonetic Alphabet, Math mode, Hellenic, Runic, Glagolitic, Old Turkic, Old Permic, Old Hungarian, Gothic, Aghwan, Old Italic, Phoenician, Samaritan, Ancient South Arabian, Ancient North Arabian, Carian, Lycian, Lydian, Sidetic, Cypriot Syllabary, Tifinagh, Ugaritic, Old Persian, Palmyrene, Parthian, Manichaean, Deseret Alphabet, Shavian Alphabet…
- Mode switching to type Unicode symbols, HTML entities, or LaTeX codes (when available) instead of a Unicode symbol (e.g., Á → Á → \`{A})
- “Internal” keyboard layouts, bult-in support for several layouts:
- Latin layouts: AZERTY, Asset, Canary, Colemak, Dhorf, Dvorak, Gallium, Graphite, Halmak, JCUKEN, Nerps, Norman, Qwickly, Stronk, Sturdy, Workman.
- Cyrillic: Диктор, ИІУКЕН (1907), ЯШЕРТЫ, Харламак, Рулемак.
- Support for “Glyph variations” (e.g., A → 𝐀 𝐴 A 𝔄 𝕬 A 𝙰 ᴬ ᴀ Ⓐ 🅐 🄰 🅰 🄐)
- Support for user-defined “recipes” in Compositing mode
- Support for importing Linux “*.XCompose” sequences as custom recipes
- Support for user-defined key binds
- Support for user-defined internal keyboard layouts
- Modding support
- User’s favorite symbols system
- Auxiliary TELEX/VNI-like modes that simplify typing in Tiếng Việt × Jơrai and Hànyǔ Pīnyīn
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