Ukelele 3.0.5 released

[John Brownie]

I have uploaded Ukelele version 3.0.5. This is another bug-fix release. The changes are:

• Buttons and menu items are enabled only as appropriate when a keyboard layout collection contains no keyboard layouts.
• Importing a dead key did not work, with various ways that it could crash. These have been fixed, so it should be working as expected now.
• When opening a keyboard layout, some checking is done to identify and report some errors that might arise with keyboard layouts that have had the XML file directly edited (in a text editor, not in Ukelele).
• Updated the Unicode database to version 9.0.0.
• Disable deleting a modifier combination if it’s the only one defined.
• When adding a new key map, the dialog now picks the empty key map as the default, rather than whatever was previously chosen, which wasn’t working correctly.
• If a keyboard layout collection had internal folders named without normal capitalisation, Ukelele would report that the bundle was invalid. This has been fixed.

As usual, Ukelele can be downloaded at http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele or via Software Update within Ukelele.

My next efforts are directed towards a 3.1 release, which will have the tutorials updated and expanded, including some changes that I make in working through it (such as improving the new keyboard layout creation process for the case where it's not in a collection). No promises as to when this will be done!

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John Brownie
In Finland on furlough from SIL Papua New Guinea

[Gé van Gasteren]

Thanks, John, for your incredible dedication over the years!

Did you initially develop Ukelele for your language research, or how did it come about?

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[John Brownie]

It all started back in 2002, when I was on furlough, casting around for something useful to do, since there wasn't much language work to do at that point. Having been a professional programmer in the past (if you've ever used Magma, formerly Cayley, I was one of the programmers in that project, but that's mathematics, not linguistics), I asked around for something to do. Someone suggested that this was a niche that needed filling, and so I've been doing it for the last 14 years. With Apple changing the playing field repeatedly, it's required a lot of learning new things, but I like that!

[Gé van Gasteren]

It sounds so... predestined when you write it like that.

And do you ever use Ukelele for your work in Papua New Guinea, or any other project?

I mean, are you only programming it, or also using it, i.e. having some benefit of your commitment?

Just curious...

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