Open Source Windows Keyboards

crkbd is the firmware and PCB design for the Corne split mechanical keyboard (aka "Corne"), maintained by foostan and the community. It provides QMK/VIA/Vial firmware support, RGB underglow, multiple layouts, and flexible hardware customization.

Custom Keyboard Layouts allowing your regular keyboard to input special charaters such as those used in various languages with having to type Alt + 4 digits under Windows.

Free Windows keyboard driver that extends AltGr to provide comprehensive accented character support (including multi-accented characters), international punctuation, IPA, medieval characters, mathematical and non-mathematical symbols, and more. Designed for UK keyboards and installs as a regular keyboard layout option. I might adapt it for US keyboards if there's enough interest. The driver should be stable (built using MSKLC, which is mature) but classified as beta because it has not yet been tested on a wide variety of systems (please give feedback!) Note that this can't display characters not supported in fonts on your system! Also if you enter an unusual symbol in some programs such as MS Word the font might switch to one which includes that symbol – this isn't anything the driver can control.

PangInput is a simple application to help you in typing characters from different languages in unicode. Three methods are available: 1) a virtual keyboard, mapping specific characters to each key on your keyboard; 2) custom character sets, which you can select by clicking on them; 3) macro sets, allowing input of complex scripts - basically mapping a latin transcription to the actual writing of characters or words.

Qwpr (pronounced "qwipper", named for the first four keys) is a keyboard layout that's easy to learn (only 11 keys move from their qwerty positions), easy to type (32% better by the Carpalx metric), practical (programmer's punctuation, arrow keys, and all major accented characters easily accessed without moving your hands off the three main rows), and very complete (over 1000 unicode characters and combinations available). The project also includes the tools I used to translate this layout from OSX to Windows format; linux tools pending.