International
International
When we first published The Dvorak Zine, we certainly didn't expect to get such an amazing international exposure. Slashdotting allowed people from all over the world to see our zine and many of them asked about alternative keyboard layouts in languages OTHER than English. The letters we do have in common may be used in totally different frequencies! As a result, no one keyboard will be perfect for everybody. With that in mind, we've posted the following links, which present more efficient, Dvorak-like layouts for other languages!
NEW! Marcos's International Page:
http://alinome.net/tmp/international.html
Our friend Marcos Cruz set up this page with dozens and dozens of international resources for international Dvorak variations. Eventually we will reformat this information for this page, but for now go to his site to check them out!
Older Resources:
Check out this awesome page dedicated to international variations of the Dvorak Keyboard layout. Resources and drivers for SPANISH, GERMAN, DUTCH, NORWEGIAN, SWEDISH and ESPERANTO! (thanks to Pupeno for the link!)
Link sent in by Whyking!
Linux only (I think?)
Also make sure to check out the German Dvorak Wikipedia article which has a lot of useful advice and information. (Thanks Hermann!)
Link sent in by Jeffery and Pascal! Has drivers for Windows, MacOS 9 & X, linux and FreeBSD. EXTENSIVE!!!
Linux only, link sent in by Daniele
For X-windows, link sent in by Andreas
This awesome site was brought to our attention by Ari for a Brazilian Portuguese version of Dvorak!
Link sent in by Brett for all you New Zealanders!
Magnus's website about Svorak, a Swedish version of Dvorak! Also: Miikka writes in to say that some Swedish typists might prefer Arkku-Dvorak
Jouni sent in this link for this Finnish layout, "DAS" which is very similar to Dvorak.
Taavi's site has Estonian Dvorak drivers for X-windows and Windows XP
Alex's site has a Mac OS X driver. For a linux machine, Daniel says to run the command "setxkbmap dvorak gb" to get a UK version of Dvorak going. Also, Silas writes: "To get Dvorak on RISC OS (used in many UK schools), click on "HD4" on the taskbar, double-click on !Boot, click on Keyboard and set it to Dvorak"
A windows keyboard file made by another Daniel. The Dvorak "United States - International" layout. Not sure what this looks like, but might be helpful to some?
Some Dvorak-esque layouts for Esperanto sent in by Michael.
Another site suggested by Michael. There are a lot of accented characters represented in this layout so maybe check it out to see if it would work for your language too!