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# scotkb
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An attempt to make a standard keyboard layout for Scots, with at least Yogh
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and possibly Eth.
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## Rationale
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Scots uses a letter, yogh (ȝ, Ȝ), which is not present in the modern
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English alphabet. Since the late medieval period, printers in Scotland tended
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to buy their type from typefounders in England, who did not include ȝ.
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Consequently, it has become common practice to use 'z' in
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place of ȝ, which leads to confusion in the pronunciation of many words
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and, in particular, in names such as
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* Cockenȝie
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* Dalȝiel
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* Menȝies
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* Ȝetland
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If you think that native Scots speakers pronounce these words strangely, this
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is probably why.
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As modern computers are perfectly capable of displaying the ȝ glyph, it
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seems sensible to make it convenient for Scots users to have a keyboard layout
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which makes it convenient to type it.
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Additionally, this keyboard layout contains eth (ð, &Eth;), since medieval
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Scots used ð and its use also affects the pronunciation of some names.
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Since ð is not (to my knowledge) used in modern Scots, the final layout may
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not include this letter.
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## Awful warning
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I do not fully know what I'm doing, and am mainly working by hacking Icelandic
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keyboard layouts. Consequently at this moment the layout still contains some
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glyphs which are used in Icelandic but not in Scots, and the layout of
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punctuation keys is not optimised for Scots use.
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This is experimental, unstable and may not work.
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## Unix
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The files provided in the `unix` subdirectory are adapted from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS;
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they should be fairly similar to equivalent files in other Un*x/Linux
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distributions, but YMMV.
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In particular I should provide scripts to modify
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* `base.lst`
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* `base.xml`
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* `evdev.lst`
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* `evdev.xml`
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but I have not yet written those.
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## Macintosh
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Nothing yet, expected soon.
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## Windows
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Nothing yet, expected soon.
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## License and copyright
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Copyright © Simon Brooke 2022. Licensed under
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[Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) terms.
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