Fijian/Keyboard
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Existing Resources
Since Fijian uses a subset of English letters, except the letter x, in both lower and upper cases, there is no separate keyboard for Fijian on Linux, MacOS, or Windows. In fact, Fijian has an additional ’ character (U+2019), which does not have an upper case, and a digraph dr. To make typing Fijian easier, I adjusted the English keyboard to include the additional ’ character (U+2019).
Justification
Fijian Keyboard
Since the English QWERTY keyboard does not contain the ’ character (U+2019) used in Fijian script, I created a separate Fijian keyboard for MacOS with Ukelele, based on the US Extended keyboard.
All the letter keys are kept the same; the only changes are the two keys added for the ’ character (U+2019) and the digraph dr through the option/alt key, as seen in the screen shot. The assignments are listed below: option/alt + = ’ (U+2019);
option/alt + d = dr.
IPA Keyboard for Fijian
The IPA keyboard is designed only for tying Fijian phonemes in IPA. Therefore, some of the letter keys are assigned
Install
1. Download the Fijian.dmg file and the Fijian.bundle file onto MacOS. 2. Open the disk image of Fijian.dmg file after downloading. 3. Drag the Fijian.bundle file to the folder "Drag here to install" in the Finder window. 4. It will ask for permission to install and then install. 5. Once the keyboard layout is installed, go to the Input Sources tab in Keyboard preference. 6. Click the + button in the lower left, which then brings up a list of available keyboards. 7. Start typing in Fijian in the search box in the lower left and the keyboard will appear on the right after a few keystrokes. 8. Click the Fijian keyboard on the right and then click Add. 9. Close the window and the Fijian keyboard will appear in the input menu on the upper right corner of the screen. 10. Repeat the same process for Fijian IPA keyboard.
License
I used MIT license, which permits commercial use, modification, distribution, and personal use. I created a file named LICENSE on the repository created for keyboard layout on github, and copied the text of the license given on the MIT license website https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/# into that file.