• To use these keyboard layouts you need KbdEdit (costs as little as €5/$6/£4¾)
  You also need to be running Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7.
  
• Click here for basic logistical information and instructions.
• One advantage of installing keyboard layouts rather than just fonts is that they let you produce different characters using many of the fonts on your computer (Dvořák, Dvořák, Dvořák, Dvořák,Чайковский, Чайковский, Чайковский, Ξενάκης, Ξενάκης, etc.)

1. Multilingual roman-character keyboard (Tagg's 2013 keyboard)

Includes all characters for all European languages using the roman alphabet, plus many useful symbols. Hover over a highlighted character to reveal the key combination producing it (dead keys explained).

Áá Àà Ââ Ää Åå Ãã Ăă Āā Ąą Ææ Ćć Čč Çç © ¢ Ðð Ďď Éé Èè Êê Ëë Ĕĕ Ȩȩ Ėė Ēē €
Ġġ Ğğ Ĝĝ Ģģ Íí Ìì Îî Ïï Ĭĭ Īī İı Įį Ķķ Ĺĺ Łł Ļļ Ńń Ňň Ññ Ņņ Óó Òò Ôô Öö Õõ Ŏŏ Øø Őő Œœ Ŕŕ Řř Śś Šš Şş Ŝŝ ß Ťť Țț Ţţ Þþ Úú Ùù Ûû Üü Űű Ůů Ūū Ųų Ẃẃ Ŵŵ ẘ
Ýý Ŷŷ Ÿÿ ẙ ¥ Źź Žž Żż ● ▪ … « » ‘ ’ “ ” ¡¿ ―|¦ ¹ ² ³ ¼ ½ ¾ × ÷ ≈ ≠ ¬
§ ¶ † ‡ ∞ µ © ® ™ ¤ £ € ¢ ¥  ♯  

Basic overview of Tagg's 2013 multilingual keyboard showing examples of characters produced in combination with dead keys ~ ` ^ ¨ ´ and °.

• More info  • Download this keyboard to install in Windows  • General info and instructions  

2. Russian keyboard for Westerners

Cyrillic letters are assigned to their phonetic equivalents on a Western keyboard. For example, to produce "Владимир", type "Vladimir".

3. Greek polytonic keyboard including Ancient Greek diacritics

Includes all Modern Greek characters with accents (αάβγδεέζηήθιίκλμνοόπρσςτυύφχψωώ plus capitals, numerals and symbols). Based on standard Greek keyboard layout with colon and semicolon on Q and accent on ; To produce "Ξενάκης" type "Jenakhw" (; is the accent dead key preceding the requisite vowel, e.g. ά = ;a). This keyboard also includes all Ancient Greek letters with accents, breathings and iota subscripts and adscripts. Please note that these characters are only visible in fonts with full Unicode suppot (e.g. Arial Unicode MS): ἀ ἐ ἠ ἰ ὀ ὐ ὠ ἁ ἑ ἠ ἱ ὁ ὑ ὡ ἄ ἔ ἤ ἴ ὄ ὤ ἅ ἕ ἥ ἵ ὅ ὕ ὥ ᾳ ῃ ῳ ᾄ ᾔ ᾤ ᾇ ᾗ ᾧ ᾱ ῑ ῡ ῒ ῢ, etc., e.g. ᾠδή = {ψδ;η. Click here for complete listings of all dead key combinations for this polytonic keyboard.

Overview of base positions showing dead keys in this colour. • Keystroke overview    • Download this keyboard (KBE) • General info & instructions

 Dead keys explained

A dead key is one which, when pressed, produces nothing unless it is followed by another keystroke. For example, pressing the tilde key (~) then a in a normal English language keyboard layout produces ~a but in Tagg's 2010 keyboard layout it produces ã (useful for João in São Paulo). Following a dead key with a space (or sometimes hitting it twice, depending on the keyboard layout) produces the dead key character on screen (e.g. ~ followed by the spacebar produces ~). The Panhellenic Greek keyboard downloadable from this site uses many dead keys (e.g. = followed by a to produce ἆ and + followed by a to produce ἇ).

For a more detailed explanation of dead keys in Tagg's 2010 keyboard layout, click here.

In short:
[1] A dead key followed by space produces the dead key character on its own.
[2] A dead key followed by a key not designated for combination produces the dead key followed by that second character. For example, tying ^j just produces ^j.
[3] A dead key followed by a key designated for combination produces a special character. For example, typing ^e results in ê, ^z in  ž .