uk4lat

Ukrainian phonetic layout for latin keyboard

How to use uk4lat

Install using precompiled files

[📥 Download]

Alternatively, build your own keyboard

Tools needed:

• MSKLC: Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator - 📥 Download

Optional tools:

• Orca (.msi editor) - 🔗 Orca is available in the 🔗 Windows SDK Components for Windows Installer Developers
• Resource Hacker 📥 Download

Steps

1. The quickest way is to load the stanard language keyboard and edit whatever you need.
   
2. In MSKLC, Project\Build DLL and setup package
3. 🎉 Enjoy*

*Note: MSKLC doesn't work very well. If you don't want leftover data you need to do this:

To edit the name displayed in the Windows language bar:

1. MSKC\File\Save source file as
2. Close MSKC
3. Open layout.klc with a text editor; edit.

To edit the version number:

1. After you have done Project\Build DLL and setup package
2. Use 'Resource Hacker' to see the content of each of the 3 .dll files in the 3 folders
3. Edit:

VALUE "FileVersion", "1, 0, 3, 40"
VALUE "ProductVersion", "1, 0, 3, 40"

5. Edit with 🔗 Orca the .msi files. Each file has 5x instances of the File version to edit.

🎉 Enjoy!