Hi,
Rather than creating a keyboard that outputs the whole script. Typically, keyboards are made for languages or languages in X script, and the goal is to optimize it for that language. Are you offering to create some or all of these keyboards?
There are keyboards for some of these, for example we definitely have a keyboard for Yezidi and Bhaiksuki. Also, Keyman.com is organized to search by language rather than script.
We are a group of volunteers who do not know the best layout for all the scripts. Keyboards should be developed by people who are actually using the script and have a good idea of what the best layout would be. Anyone is welcome to submit a keyboard to our repository. We will check it, request changes, etc as time allows. If the submitted keyboard has been well tested by the developer of the keyboard it is more likely to quickly be approved. Following all the steps in building a keyboard and submitting it to the repo will make the keyboard a good quality keyboard.
Also, documenting how to use a keyboard is essential to people being able to using the keyboard. It does take a lot of work and we welcome submissions from people who have time to do this. It helps us better support users if these scripts.
There is a search by script if you use the s: prefix (e.g. https://keyman.com/keyboards?q=s%3Ayezidi shows 1 keyboard for Yezidi script), and Iβm hoping to introduce a list of all scripts in use and keyboards supporting each script at some point. Iβd love to have a geek-view of the Unicode script support vs Keyman script support, but as you say, @Lorna, itβs not actually how the average end user would look for a keyboard.
What are you showing here? Are these keyboards you would like to see made?
I would be willing to create keyboards for some of the scripts on your initial list but you will need to state which language uses each script. As far as Iβm aware, Keyman requires each script to be associated with a language. So if there is no known language which uses a particular script then a keyboard canβt be created for it.
I already thought about creating a Lycian keyboard when I created the Carian keyboard. However, these things take a lot of time and Iβm a self-taught programmer so I often run into problems Iβm unsure of how to handle. The admins here are of great assistance
Thanks for the suggestions. If you would like us to consider these as feature requests, please open an issue at https://github.com/keymanapp/keyman/issues/new/choose so we can prioritize. If possible, include details on how you collected the data for the scripts, and rationale and ideas on how you would differentiate the multiple keyboards available for certain scripts (e.g. Latin script has hundreds of keyboards).
