So did you hear the big announcement today? No, not the iPod announcements coming from Moscone West, the other groundreaking announcement of the day. Getting little press today, because of the SteveNote, is a small application released by Microsoft called The Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator that has major impact on the Modern Orthodox Jew.
According to Microsoft this application allows you to “easily define your own keyboard layout for a language Microsoft doesn’t support … Or define your own keyboard layout so you can quickly and easily enter your favorite symbols with a simple keystroke” How can this possibly be of any use to me? I’ll tell you how, this simple utility makes it possible to create one of the most requested items for entering Hebrew into a computer, A phonetic Hebrew keyboard.
Now you can hit the M key and get a ?, and you can hit the S key when you need a ?. It just makes sense, and for anyone who occasionally enters Hebrew text, it makes life a whole lot easier.
Download Files for the phonetic Hebrew mapping here and get your phonetic on.
In order to use this you must have installed support for right-to-left languages in Windows Regional and Language options. Let us know if you have any thoughts on this phonetic keyboard mapping and any ideas for improvements.
Thanks to Isaac Shalev and ReJewVenate for the phonetic keyboard mapping.
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