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Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input methods/kr-tilde

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You can type in the Kanuri alphabet with all the special letters!

To enable this keyboard layout, do the following:

  1. Click the search box at the top of the page.
  2. Click the little keyboard icon that appears near the search box.
  3. If "kanuri" appears at the top of the list, select "Kanuri tilde".
  4. If "kanuri" doesn't appear at the top of the list, do the following:
    1. Click "..." at the bottom of the list. A panel will appear.
    2. Find "kanuri" in the panel. Click it.
    3. Click the little keyboard icon again, and select "Kanuri tilde".

To disable this special keyboard and go back to typing usually, click the little keyboard icon and then click "Use native keyboard", or press Ctrl-M. To re-enable the Kanuri keyboard, repeat the steps listed above.

To type Kanuri letters, type the tilde (~), and after it type the Latin letter that is the most similar to the Kanuri letter. For example, to type Ɍ, type ~ and then R. The full list:

To type this letter... Type these keyboard keys:
Ǝ ~E
ǝ ~e
Ɍ ~R
ɍ ~r

To type accents above the letters, type the letter, and then type tilde (~) followed by \, /, ^, or v:

To type this letter... Type these keyboard keys:
à a~\
é e~/
î i~^
ǔ u~v