The Unicode keyboard layout editor is software that allows users to create and customize keyboard layouts for typing in different languages using Unicode characters. It provides an intuitive interface for designing and mapping keys to characters, symbols, and diacritics from various scripts.
Ukelele is a sleek Unicode keyboard layout editor designed for the XML-format keyboard layout files in OS X. It is specifically optimized to provide a graphical interface to the layout files, with a range of user-friendly functionalities like support for drag-and-drop character assignments, creation of dead keys, and assignment of multi-character strings.
With the introduction of version 10.2 (Jaguar), Mac OS X provided support for an XML format for keyboard layouts, which can be installed by copying them to the Keyboard Layouts folder within /Library or ~/Library, thus enabling them via the Input tab of the International module in System Preferences.
Despite this provision, making modifications or creating entirely new keyboard layouts by directly editing the XML text can be tedious and error-prone. Ukelele comes in handy in such situations as it aims to simplify keyboard layout editing by providing a graphical interface to .keylayout files, where desired characters can simply be dragged onto keys as needed.
Ukelele also supports more complex functionalities like assigning multiple-character strings and creating "dead keys," where a keystroke sets a new state that modifies the output of the following keystroke. Overall, Ukelele makes it easier for Mac OS X users to create and modify keyboard layouts with minimal hassle.
With the introduction of version 10.2 (Jaguar), Mac OS X provided support for an XML format for keyboard layouts, which can be installed by copying them to the Keyboard Layouts folder within /Library or ~/Library, thus enabling them via the Input tab of the International module in System Preferences.
Despite this provision, making modifications or creating entirely new keyboard layouts by directly editing the XML text can be tedious and error-prone. Ukelele comes in handy in such situations as it aims to simplify keyboard layout editing by providing a graphical interface to .keylayout files, where desired characters can simply be dragged onto keys as needed.
Ukelele also supports more complex functionalities like assigning multiple-character strings and creating "dead keys," where a keystroke sets a new state that modifies the output of the following keystroke. Overall, Ukelele makes it easier for Mac OS X users to create and modify keyboard layouts with minimal hassle.
What's New
Version 1.8.4: N/A