We get a lot of emails from people struggling to install and switch between Japanese keyboards.
You just have to know how to get in there, turn it on, and make it work for you. In fact, just about every computer has a Japanese keyboard ready and waiting inside of it. No more special discs with complicated software. Inuttitut-Nunavik (Unicode) Keyboard Layout.Installing Japanese keyboards on non-Japanese computers has gotten much easier in the past ten years.
You unzip the zip file to extract setup.exe, save it in any directory Which installs the Unicode Inuttitut-Nunavik Keyboard and This zip file contains the file setup.exe The image has been slightly altered to reflect Windows keyboards. "Inuttitut-Nunavik" Keyboard Driver for Windows NT, 2000, XP The zip file and the image of the keyboard layout come from the AiPai fonts and driver installer page of the Kativik School Board site. Inuktitut Keyboard Layouts - Levels 1 and 2. Windows XP keyboards are added in the control panels under "RegionalĪnd Language Options/Text Services and Input Languages/Settings/Add".įigure 1. After this is done you can run the 'kbdiu.exe',Īnd following approximately the same procedure as on Windows 2000 - on Then select "Windows 2000"įrom the drop-down box. "Run this program in compatibility mode". There is a bit of a compatibility trick when Shift, Alt, Alt+Shift provides 3 additional keyboard levels. Push CAPS LOCK to enable the Inuktitut layouts. Now have an indicator with "EN" onĬlick this icon and it should pop up indicating yourĬurrent keyboard as well as one with the Inuktitut Nunacom layout. In the task bar icon tray at the bottom right you should Need to reboot, then come back to this point) Is fine Be sure to clear the checkbox marked "Use default
Suitable for Nunavut's Inuktitut, but not for Nunavik's Inuttitut because there is no provision for typing the AiPai characters.
To our knowledge, there are 2 such keyboard drivers for Unicode Inuktitut, with slightly different mappings: Syllabic characters onto the keys of the keyboard. That you type according to a certain keyboard layout that maps the Unicode Inuktitut syllabic characters at the keyboard of your computer, you must haveĪ particular keyboard driver installed.