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Friday, May 11, 2012

Polish Dvorak keyboard layout for OSX

ctrl++elfie by djenvert from flickr (CC-NC-ND)
This is something I should have done like three years ago, but better late than never.

I created Polish Dvorak keyboard layout for OSX and I put it on github repository with installation instructions.

Unlike with Linux Polish Dvorak layout, where altgr-bindings exist only for Polish characters, in this layout pretty much all keys have altgr-bindings. They are mostly mathematical symbols I copied over from standard OSX Dvorak layout. I have no idea if they are actually useful, so if you have a good reason why they should be something else go ahead and message me.

There could also be bugs, so please report them. And since I have a nice repository going, feel free to send me any other custom keyboard layouts you've made.

The process wasn't that bad - it's XML file and there's even an usable third party editor application for them - Ukelele. I remember back when I used Windows and such things required hexediting binaries. These were the days...

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