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Armenian Phonetic Keyboard Layout

Armenian phonetic keyboard layout for Mac OSX.

This project was initiated as an alternative keyboard layout for those who have an experience of working with Armenian Phonetic layout in Windows/Linux. It basically is created from scratch using Ukelele tool on Mac for editing keyboard layouts. It is hosted on Github page. Please feel free to file bugs right on Github. I'll do my best to address them as quickly as possible.

Below are brief instructions on the layout set-up.

Included Layouts

  • Armenian Phonetic - Regular phonetic layout where key "R" types "ր".
  • Armenian Phonetic (KDWin) - Exactly the same layout as in KDWin.
  • Armenian Phonetic With English - Option key changes the keys to English in place of special characters.
  • Armenian Phonetic (KDWin) With English - KDWin phonetic layout with Option key feature.

How To Install

  1. Download ArmenianPhonetic.dmg file from the releases section. Image Window
  2. Drag the ArmenianPhonetic.bundle file to the Keyboard Layouts folder.
  3. The system will ask you to authenticate, as the directory requires super user access. Permission Access
  4. The layouts should appear in the Language & Text (or System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources) preferences section. In case they didn't, simply log out and log back in, so that the OS reloads the layouts. Permission Access

Manual Install(works also with mac on Apple silicon, tested on Apple M3 Pro)

  1. get the needed layout files/folders and move into layouts folder:
  • download the file ./ArmenianPhonetic.icns and folder ./ArmenianPhonetic.bundle and copy them to ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts/ directory, in order to see Library folder you will need to go to home folder in finder ( Command-Shift-H) and in View->Show View Options (Command-J) check "Show Library Folder", see the screen in screen
  • or if you fluent with terminal and git tools you can run the following command(it clones git repo into folder, copy needed files into layouts directory and cleanups/deletes the git repo folder):
git clone [email protected]:vahe-evoyan/armenian-phonetic.git && cp -r ./armenian-phonetic/ArmenianPhonetic.bundle ./armenian-phonetic/ArmenianPhonetic.icns  ~/Library/Keyboard\ Layouts/ && rm -rf ./armenian-phonetic/

Here is what you should see in folder ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts/ when browsing from finder or looking by terminal: layouts folder in finder, layouts folder in terminal

  1. Log out and log back in, or better restart the Mac
  2. Here is how to activate the new layout:
  • for old Mac OS versions: go to Language & Text (or System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources) preferences and check the Armenian - Phonetic check-box.
  • or for new Mac OS versions: go to System Settings and search for Keyboard layouts (or System Settings > Keyboard > Input Sources) preferences and in bottom left corner click on "+" button and select "Armenian" language in list, and then in opened right layouts list select preferred Armenian Phonetic layout and click on "add" button.