Tips, tricks and guides for typing in any language
From the 1982 :-) smiley to Japanese emoji and their arrival in Unicode: how emoji began, who decides on new ones, and the shortcuts to type them on Windows and Mac.
Read more โHow Japanese is typed on a keyboard: the three scripts, romaji input, converting to kanji, useful shortcuts and flick input on phones.
Read more โWhere do AI-assisted writing, dictation, VR keyboards, EMG wristbands and brain implants really stand? What already exists and what's still experimental.
Read more โHow thousands of Chinese characters are typed on a 26-letter keyboard: Pinyin input, the Wubi method, Taiwan's Zhuyin, handwriting and voice.
Read more โThe main diacritics used around the world and every way to type them: Alt codes and US-International on Windows, press-and-hold and Option on Mac, the Compose key on Linux, and online keyboards.
Read more โHow stenotype and chorded keyboards work, why they allow speeds above 200 words a minute, and how to try steno for free with Plover.
Read more โWhy accented letters used to turn into gibberish, what ASCII, code pages and UTF-8 are, and how Unicode lets every language share the same screen.
Read more โAn online keyboard, transliteration, stickers or an Arabic layout on Windows, Mac and your phone: how to type Arabic on a QWERTY keyboard.
Read more โWhere QWERTY and AZERTY come from, what Dvorak, Colemak and BรPO are really worth, what France's new AZERTY standard changes, and how to switch layouts.
Read more โFrom the first typewriters to touchscreens, by way of QWERTY and the IBM Model M: how the keyboard came to look the way it does.
Read more โThe 33 letters of the Russian alphabet grouped by difficulty, the ะะฆะฃะะะ layout, the phonetic keyboard, and a simple method for learning to type in Russian.
Read more โTyping in another language, entering a password on a shared computer, standing in for a broken keyboard or making a computer accessible: what an on-screen keyboard is really good for, and its limits.
Read more โMembrane or mechanical, linear, tactile or clicky switches, full-size, TKL or 60% layouts, keycaps and programming: what to know before buying a mechanical keyboard.
Read more โHow the dubeolsik Korean keyboard works, how letters combine into syllable blocks as you type, and how to write Korean on a computer and a phone.
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