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Keyboard for writting Old English

download the attached file and extract it with right click. then run installer.msi and you are good to go.

Keyboard Installer, if you dont trust external files ike this, use the klc file, i reccomend looking at a tutorial of the microsoft layput creator

Klc file

Github repo for all the interested

This keyboard can be also used for write old norse and icelandic

You will see a new option apering at your bar, close to the clock applet, there you can select the keyboard you want to use

If you want to modify it you have the klc file, wich is modifiable with Microsoft keyboard creator

LAYOUT main Layout layout with shift layout with altgr (right alt) layout with altgr and shift layout with cntrl

for putting dots on top like in the word iċ, you need to press (AltGr and + in american keyborard), for anyone else (AltGr and [the key two spaces at the left of the backspace]) and the letter you want this is the table of results letter with dots

for putting a long stick or accent or macron on top of a vowel just press the key + on a american keyboard or two keys at the left of backspace in other keyboards table of results

macron, stick on top

for the vawel œ̄, you have to press ctrl and the key one space at the right of the l in qwerty keyboars the image is pretty descriptory vawel œ̄

for the Œ̄ Shift, altgr and the same key for œ̄ vawel

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