I always like to see people working to further the use of the Dvorak keyboard layout.
Mike Burrell a Ph.D. student at The University of Western Ontario is doing just that, he is taking Dvorak where it has never been. Mr. Burrell has adapted the dvorak layout for the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet (for use on Macs).
“I’ve taken it upon myself to make a new keyboard layout. It is a keyboard layout for the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, inspired by the Dvorak keyboard layout. The Dvorak layout is a keyboard layout that was invented to alleviate the problems in mainstream keyboard layouts.” Read the rest here.
Great job Mike! I hope to see more stories like this soon!!
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Thanks for writing this up! I’m Mike, the creator of Serbian Dvorak. Sorry it’s only available for Macs, but that’s all I needed it for.
Wouldn’t it be great if we had a Dvorak layout for every alphabet out there? If anyone out there is looking to create a Dvorak layout for their alphabet of choice, I highly recommend going to Project Gutenberg. There are a lot of free (long) texts there in a variety of languages. You can download them all in text format to do some simple analyses to figure out exactly which letters/letter combinations are more common than others.
Thanks!