An US international keyboard with diacritics for more letters

Question

Recently I bought a new laptop with Windows 10 and I tried to make characters like "ĉ" and "ŭ" which I was able to do in my school Chromebook with the "US international keyboard". The thing is that the "United States-International" keyboard of my Windows device doesn't let me put diacritics in too many letters. I've been searching online and I could find the exact same keyboard that I was using in the Chromebook (this one), but I couldn't find any way to download it.

Do you know any website where I can download that same keyboard?

Answer 1

I would highly recommend Autohotkey. I don't know if it works with Windows 10, since I only use a chromebook now, but when I did have a laptop (vista), it was one of my most used apps. It's actually the only thing I miss about Windows. It allows you to write your own macros & you can even go as far as writing complete applications, with a self-contained .exe for other people to use. For example you could write a script that would automatically convert 'cx' to 'ĉ', 'Cx' to 'Ĉ', etc;. Just write the script & run it (it runs in the background) & type 'cx' & it will change automatically. You can even create an option in the systray icon to toggle the script on/off with a right-click. I thought I had the script I wrote somewhere but I can't find it. It's super easy to learn though if you read the documentation.

Answer 2

The "same" keyboard layout (or rather, keyboard layouts of the same "name") can be different between various operating systems. Windows 10 is one operating system, but Chromebooks use a different operating system (Chrome OS) by default, so some differences are to be expected.

So what are your options on Windows?

• As mentioned in John Gordon Reid's answer to How do I type the Esperanto letters on Windows?, you may be able to modify Windows 10's US international keyboard layout (or to create a new one from scratch) to be more similar or maybe even exactly the same as the one of Chrome OS using Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator.

• If you want to be able to type characters of many different languages (especially Latin-based ones with diacritics) easily without having to switch keyboard layouts when changing between languages (and without having to memorize what character is where on which layout), a compose key approach may be suitable. See Tobias Kienzler's answer to How do I type the Esperanto letters on Windows? and Miroslav Šedivý's great talk One Brain, One Keyboard, One Editor or his much shorter lightning talk on Keyboard Layouts also covering that aspect. (Note though that Miro's instructions on how to modify the keyboard layout are specific to Linux and/or the X windowing system, and thus do not apply to Microsoft Windows.)

• Use an Esperanto keyboard layout. (Some are mentioned in answers to How do I type the Esperanto letters on Windows?)

• Use additional software like Tajpi, EK, XK or TypeIt. (Many are mentioned in answers to How do I type the Esperanto letters on Windows?. Some don't mentione whether they work also on Windows 10.)

The New Zealand Esperanto Association has a page dedicated to How to type Esperanto characters with a sub-page focusing on Windows.

Answer 3

You can try the SuperLatin keyboard layout: http://www.kreativekorp.com/software/keyboards/superlatin/

It seems to support Esperanto characters without changing anything from the base US layout, but I haven't tried it yet so I can't really endorse it.

There's EurKey too https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/ but glancing at the documentation it seems that Esperanto is not supported.