Language support … Pan-Sahelian Unicode keyboard layout
Pan-Sahelian Unicode is a keyboard layout designed to use with Tavultesoft Keyman 5.
The Pan-Sahelian 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 Pan-Sahelian keyboard layout can be downloaded from http://www.openroad.net.au/languages/files/ps.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 Pan-Sahelian keyboard layout uses the Alt key and Shift-Alt key sequences in conjunction with letters to type the additional characters required.
The keyboard layout has been designed to use with either Microsoft's US English or US International keyboards as the active system keyboard. When you are using the US International system keyboard, you will also be able to use the AltGr and Shift-AltGr keyboard sequences to type the additional characters.
| Character | Input in Keyman | Unicode codepoint |
 | Alt+b | U+0253 |
 | Shift+Alt+b | U+0181 |
 | Alt+d | U+0257 |
 | Shift+Alt+d | U+018A |
 | Alt+[ | U+025B |
 | Shift+Alt+[ | U+0190 |
 | Alt+k | U+0199 |
 | Shift+Alt+k | U+0198 |
 | Alt+n | U+014B |
 | Shift+Alt+n | U+014A |
 | Alt+` | U+0272 |
 | Shift+Alt+` | U+019D |
 | Alt+] | U+0254 |
 | Shift+Alt+] | U+0186 |
 | Alt+y | U+01B4 |
 | Shift+Alt+y | U+01B3 |
 | Alt+' | U+02BC |
Alt+ means that it is necessary to press the Alt key and at the same time press the key indicated after Alt+. Shift+Alt+ indicates that it is necessary to press the Shift key and at the same time press the Alt key as well as the key indicated after Shift+Alt+.
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