mnkhprre / turkishy

A Turkish Q keyboard layout clone for all MacBooks with few tweaks

turkishy

A Turkish Q keyboard layout clone for all MacBooks with few tweaks.

turkishy is the same as the standard Turkish Q layout with a few key differences:

1. The dead keys in the standard Turkish Q layout are ^, ~, ´, ¨, and `. These keys are now normal characters in the Turkish Y layout. So, the user now can type these characters without having to follow them with another character.
2. OPTION+SPACE now prints regular SPACE instead of non-breaking SPACE. To type non-breaking SPACE, simply press CTRL+OPTION+SPACE.
3. CAPS LOCK is now SHIFT LOCK. Typically, a CAPS LOCK only capitalizes the letters on the keyboard. However, a SHIFT LOCK behaves like the user is continuously pressing the SHIFT key. For example, in the Turkish Q layout, SHIFT+1 types ! whereas CAPS LOCK+1 types 1. In the Turkish Y layout, CAPS LOCK+1 types !, just like SHIFT+1.

NOTE: turkishy layout is superior to the other SHIFT LOCK solutions found in internet because it further implements support for the cases where extra modifiers are used, e.g. OPTION, CTRL+OPTION, and so on.

NOTE: turkishy interprets pressing both SHIFT and SHIFT LOCK as pressing either one of them, unlike some SHIFT LOCK implementations where pressing both cancels each other.

WARNING: turkishy is never tested with a long keyboard layout with numeric keypad.

All the above changes aim to facilitate coding via Turkish Q keyboards.

This layout is prepared using Ukelele 3.4.2.

Table of Contents

1. Tested Operating Systems
2. Installation

Tested Operating Systems

1. macOS Catalina Version 10.15.6
2. macOS Monterey Version 12.3.1

Installation

1. Download and copy the TurkishY.layout file to your "/Library/Keyboard Layouts/" directory.
2. Restart the OS.
3. Open System Preferences.
4. Open Keyboard.
5. Go to Input Source tab.
6. Press the + key.
7. Select Others as the language family.
8. Select Turkish Y and click Add.