I made an IPA keyboard for fcitx on Linux!

For those who may not know, the IPA (international phonetics alphabet) is widely used for writing out how words are spoken. It’s very useful for linguists writing research papers, and for people looking to learn new languages!

As I wasn’t satisfied with most IPA keyboards available, and wanted something that integrated well with fcitx, which I already have to use for japanese input, I re-implemented parts of the SIL IPA keyboard . It’s not a one-to-one recreation (yet), because I needed somthing now rather than later, and took some shortcuts to put in all the features I personally needed, but it should be good enough for doing broad transcription of RP English. It should also be fairly trivial to hack in support for most character combinations.

Feel free to check out the git repo!

alteredEnvoy,

That’s amazing! May I suggest using space as a terminator instead of =? We do that all the time in Pinyin Input method and it’s quite convenient

yukijoou,

= is not a terminator! it’s a modifier for the previous key: e= -> ə!

i did set up both space and enter to commit a word though, yeah!

QuazarOmega,

That’s really cool!
The screencasting of the keys also caught my attention, may I ask what you used for that?

yukijoou,

i used ShowMeTheKeys!

daredevil,
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This is awesome, OP. I've crossposted this to @linguistics to give you a little more visibility. Cheers.

chunkyhairball,

“Here’s something I made for my school work. It occurs that it might be useful to others in my line of study.”

WTG! You just EXEMPLIFIED the open source ethic!

yukijoou,

^_^

i know i’ve wanted something like this for a while. i really didn’t want to have to figure out how to get the existing keyman keyboard layout to work on linux, because fcitx works fine for all my other input needs, and i already knew how fcitx worked as i made an addon to get on-screen keyboards to work with it a while back…

as i know not many people would dare venture in the world of fcitx addons, due to the quite horrendous state the documentation is in… so if i wasn’t gonna do it, likely no-one else was, so i did it! and shared it with everyone, because the worse that could happen is that someone helps me make it better!

southsamurai,
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Dude, that’s fucking righteous. I don’t even need it, but the fact that you did it is cool as hell :)

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