Language support … DLIA Dinka Unicode keyboard layout
DLIA Dinka Unicode is a keyboard layout designed to use with Tavultesoft Keyman 5.
The DLIA Dinka Unicode keyboard layout is free to download and use. The keyboard layout requires the Keyman 5.0. Tavultesoft Keyman 5.0 is free for personal and educational use. For all other uses, Keyman may be used for a 30 day evaluation, and after that time, the registration cost of US$30 must be paid. Discounts are available for users in developing countries, larger orders, and other special cases. See Tavultesoft's registration page for further details, including methods of payment.
The DLIA Dinka Unicode keyboard layout can be downloaded from http://www.openroad.net.au/languages/files/dlia_dinka_unicode.zip. Once you have downloaded the zip file, extract the file into a temporary directory. Then start up Keyman 5 and install the keyboard layout from the Keyman configuration screen.
Keyman 5.0 Documentation is available in PDF format at http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/downloads/keyman.pdf
Windows 95/98/ME are based on older non-unicode legacy encodings. Keyman 5 will work on Windows 95/98/ME with some unicode aware programs. Windows NT4/2000 has much better Unicode support. It is important to read Tavultesoft's FAQ What applications and operating systems support Unicode?
The DLIA Dinka Unicode keyboard layout use deadkeys in conjunction with letters to type the additional characters required by Dinka.
The two deadkeys are the semi-colon ( ; ) and the backslash ( \ ) keys. The semi-colon deadkey allows you to add a diaeresis to the following vowel. If you need to type a semi-colon press the semi-colon key twice ( ;; ), and if you need to enter a backslash press the backslash key twice ( \\ ).
| Character | Input in Keyman | Unicode codepoint |
 | ;a | U+00E4 |
 | ;A | U+00C4 |
 | ;e | U+00EB |
 | ;E | U+00CB |
 | \e | U+025B |
 | \E | U+0190 |
 | ;\e | U+025B U+0308 |
 | ;\E | U+0190 U+0308 |
 | \g | U+0263 |
 | \G | U+0194 |
 | ;i | U+00EF |
 | ;I | U+00CF |
 | \n | U+014B |
 | \N | U+014A |
 | ;o | U+00F6 |
 | ;O | U+00D6 |
 | \o | U+0254 |
 | \O | U+0186 |
 | ;\o | U+0254 U+0308 |
 | ;\O | U+0186 U+0308 |
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