diff --git a/.htaccess b/.htaccess index 7be7303..d5c9ef4 100644 --- a/.htaccess +++ b/.htaccess @@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ RedirectMatch "^/(?!iphone-and-ipad)(ios|iphone|ipad)(\/.*)?" "/iphone-and-ipad$ # Connect With Art landing page RedirectMatch "/connectwithart(\/|$)" "https://sites.google.com/sil.org/connectwithart/home" +RedirectMatch "^/lt4all(/?)$" "/ldml/lt4all" + # per-language landing pages RedirectMatch "^/albanian(/?)$" "/keyboards/basic_kbdal" RedirectMatch "^/ancient-egyptian(/?)$" "/keyboards/hieroglyphic" diff --git a/ldml/lt4all.md b/ldml/lt4all.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b8bd16 --- /dev/null +++ b/ldml/lt4all.md @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +--- +title: LT4All 2025 - CLDR Keyboards +--- + +## Introducing Unicode CLDR Keyboards + +### An open keyboard specification and repository designed for Indigenous languages + +## **CLDR Keyboards** are software keyboard layouts + +* Desktop and laptop computers +* Touchscreen devices – phones and tablets +* IoT devices that support text input + +## Benefits for your language community + +* CLDR Keyboard WG is creating a clear process for authors to submit keyboard + layouts to CLDR +* Engage with the CLDR team – no need to build multiple relationships with + industry vendors +* Submission process is open and transparent +* New and updated keyboards will be distributed on a regular schedule to vendors +* Copyright remains with the creator of the keyboard (usage rights are provided + to vendors via CLDR contributors agreement) + +## Who is involved? + +* [Unicode Consortium][1] – CLDR Keyboard Working Group +* Major industry vendors are implementing the specification in operating systems + and devices +* [SIL Global][2] develops Keyman – an open source and free implementation for + CLDR keyboards +* [Translation Commons][3] creates keyboards for Indigenous communities + +## Designed for Indigenous and low-resource language needs + +* Simple, concise high-level keyboard design language +* Cross-platform by design +* Minimal reference to hardware +* Transforms provide complex script support + * reordering, recombining, normalization + * user-friendly typing experience + * produce consistent output + +## About CLDR – the Common Locale Data Repository + +* A home for all industry vendors to intake locale and cultural data – and now also keyboard layouts +* Already in use by all major software companies (including Amazon, Apple, + Google, Meta, Microsoft etc.) for calendar, language, and regional metadata + +## About Keyman + +* Free, open source software keyboard – MIT licensed +* Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, and web + +## How to start creating CLDR Keyboards + +* [Read the specification](https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-keyboards.html) +* [Download Keyman Developer](/developer) +* [More about Keyman and CLDR/LDML Keyboards](/ldml) + +## Talk to us + +* [Keyman Community](https://community.software.sil.org/c/keyman) +* [Unicode CLDR](https://cldr.unicode.org/requesting_changes) +* [Translation Commons](https://translationcommons.org) + + +[1]: https://unicode.org/ +[2]: https://sil.org/ +[3]: https://translationcommons.org/ \ No newline at end of file