Aral Balkan

I just whipped up an AIR app that should make it easier for people who don't have a Turkish keyboard but need to occasionally type in Turkish to use Turkish characters. Yes, it's a niche app :)

The reason I made it? In 140 characters from earlier tonight:

Emailed my mom in Turkish & apparently wrote "I don't fuck myself" instead of "I don't stress myself out" by not using Turkish characters.

(Sorry, mom!)

After my tweet, Alper Çuğun tweeted:

@aral Ouch! Any clue where to put those couple rarely used characters for easy access? Character palette doesn't really cut it.

And that gave me the idea for the app! A few hours later (mostly spent on prettying it up and packaging it up), I give you the nichest app ever! :)

To use TurkishCharactersAIR, either click the buttons or simply switch to the app and type the closest corresponding Latin character to the one you want and the Turkish version will be copied to the system's clipboard.

Note: It's late and I've only tested this on OS X. Please let me know if you test it on Windows or Linux.

Shoutouts to:

• Graviti for his awesome AIR Custom Chrome.
• Nahuel Foronda for his beautiful Brownie AIR theme and to ScaleNine for being the catalyst for such themes to be created.
• Peter Elst for his excellent AIR Badge Wordpress plugin and to Grant Skinner for making the original custom install badge for AIR (by the way, the dimensions of the image for the badge are 205x170 — didn't see that stated anywhere!)

Comments

• Cool! It's an easy custom clipboard which I'll definitely use the next time I write Turkish (which admittedly is not that often). I'm actually only concerned with ışğ because the other ones are pretty easily constructed using Option combinations.

  by Alper Çuğun on 2009-05-24 18:57:53

• Hey i installed on ubuntu 9.4 jaunty 64bit, and works with no problem. and i typed this for test linuxta, TurkishCharactersAIR kullanarak ingilizce klavye ile yazi yazmak için hiç "s*kinti" çekmiyorum, hiç "s*ikici" değil, çok kolay. hehehe.

  by godstroke on 2009-05-25 20:11:45

• LOL, glad to hear that it works on Linux, man :)

  by Aral on 2009-05-26 10:46:32