Uzbek new-alphabet keyboard layout for Mac and Linux

Type ö, ğ, ş, ç and ʼ directly: hold Option on a Mac, or AltGr on Linux, and press the letter you would reach for anyway. Every other key stays exactly where it is.

The five keys

⌥ / AltGr + oö Ö
⌥ / AltGr + gğ Ğ
⌥ / AltGr + sş Ş
⌥ / AltGr + cç Ç
⌥ / AltGr + 'ʼ

Install on a Mac

  1. 1

    Download the archive below. If your browser does not unpack it, double-click Ozbek-yangi-alifbo.zip in your Downloads folder: you get Ozbek-yangi-alifbo.bundle.

  2. 2

    Move Ozbek-yangi-alifbo.bundle to the Keyboard Layouts folder in your Library: in Finder, choose Go → Go to Folder and enter ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts. If an earlier Ozbek-yangi-alifbo.keylayout is there, delete it.

  3. 3

    Log out and back in.

  4. 4

    Open System Settings → Keyboard → Input Sources → Edit, press + and add the layout. Switch to it from the input menu in the menu bar.

In the list it is called Özbek (yangi alifbo)

Not in the list? Run xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine "$HOME/Library/Keyboard Layouts/Ozbek-yangi-alifbo.bundle" in Terminal, then log out and back in.

Download for macOS

To remove it, delete Ozbek-yangi-alifbo.bundle from ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts and log out and back in.

What these combinations typed before on a Mac

  • ⌥oøö
  • ⇧⌥oØÖ
  • ⌥g©ğ
  • ⇧⌥g˝Ğ
  • ⌥sßş
  • ⇧⌥sÍŞ
  • ⌥'æʼ
  • ⇧⌥'Æʼ

Install on Linux

  1. 1

    Download the archive below; it lands in your Downloads folder.

  2. 2

    Unpack it into your configuration folder: tar -xzf ~/Downloads/alfavit-xkb.tar.gz -C ~/.config

  3. 3

    Log out and back in.

  4. 4

    In your desktop’s keyboard settings, add “Uzbek (Alfavit, AltGr)”. AltGr is the right-hand Alt key.

This works on desktops that read ~/.config/xkb, such as GNOME on Wayland. X11 sessions do not read it, so there the layout has to be installed system-wide by hand.

If you already keep your own layouts in ~/.config/xkb, back up rules/evdev.xml and symbols/uz first: unpacking replaces them.

Download for Linux

To remove it, delete “Uzbek (Alfavit, AltGr)” in your keyboard settings, run rm ~/.config/xkb/symbols/uz ~/.config/xkb/rules/evdev.xml ~/.config/xkb/COPYING.xkeyboard-config, and log out and back in.

Windows

The Windows layout is in preparation. Until then, the Alfavit app for Windows converts what you type into the new alphabet in any program.

The layout is a file, not a program: it runs nothing in the background and sends nothing anywhere. Delete the file and it is gone.