RuneKeys1.2 - App Store

RuneKeys provides keyboards for writing in runes:

. Elder Futhark:
- Keyboard for transcribing English
- Keyboard for transcribing German
- Pure Elder Futhark keyboard

. Anglo-Saxon Futhork:
- Keyboard for transcribing English
- Pure Anglo-Saxon Futhork keyboard

As the keys of the keyboards provided by the system do, keys of the rune keyboards reveal additional characters and symbols when pressed and hold. Among these are variations (e.g. of the *hagalaz rune), alternative transcriptions, and related characters (e.g. 2 and ²).
P R I V A C Y S T A T E M E N T

I design my software following the principle to only collect, process, and store data that is actually needed for the software to serve its purpose. No single bit more than that. In German, the name of this principle is "Datensparsamkeit." A literal translation of this word is "data thrift".

In effect, this means:

. RuneKeys has no user accounts. RuneKeys will not ask you for personal data.
. Data you enter in the RuneKeys app will not leave the app. In case of the provided keyboards, the characters you type will be passed to the operating system which will process them in order, for example, to insert them into a text field.
. No personal data is collected or processed.
. No user tracking of any kind is used.

Version History Anglo-Saxon keyboards.

In Detail:
NEW:

• Added Anglo-Saxon keyboards:
- Keyboard for transcribing English
- Pure Anglo-Saxon Futhork keyboard

• Added more help topics.
BUGFIXES:

• Removed all transcriptions for the letter q except for /kw/ from the English keyboards. 1.2 08/02/2020 Bugfixes, built-in help.

In Detail:
NEW:

• Added built-in help which provides information on:

- how to install the provided keyboards and making them available in other apps,
- how the keys of the keyboard work.

• Added the *ēwaz rune (/æ/) to the key of the English keyboard that transcribes the letter A.

• Added ways to connect with me.
BUGFIXES:

• Transcription en -> Elder Futhark:

- The phoneme /ʒ/ produced in English for the letter J has no corresponding rune in the Elder Futhark. Previously, the *jēra- rune was used to transcribe J, a decision which was based on the transliteration from Elder Futhark to Latin script. Now, the key to transcribe J has no primary character anymore but two alternative characters: A sequence of runes which attempt to come as close as possible to /ʒ/ and the *jēra- rune.
- The /kf/ alternative character for Q is found in the repertoire of Germans who speak English with an accent, so it has been removed from the English transcription keyboard.
- The phoneme /v/ produced in English for the letter V has no corresponding rune in the Elder Futhark. Previously, the *fehu rune was used to transcribe V, a decision which was based on the fact that in German V can produce the phoneme /f/, the voiceless syllable of /v/. To some using the *wunjō rune is more natural. Now, the key to transcribe V has no primary character anymore but two alternative characters: One is the *fehu rune, the other is the *wunjō rune.
- The phoneme /ʒ/ produced in English for the letter G has no corresponding rune in the Elder Futhark. Previously, only the *gebō rune was used to transcribe the letter G which produces /g/ but not /ʒ/. Now, the key to transcribe G has no primary character anymore but two alternative characters: One is the *gebō rune, the other is a sequence of runes which attempt to come as close as possible to /ʒ/.

• Transcription de -> Elder Futhark:

- The phoneme /v/ produced in German for the letters W and V has no corresponding rune in the Elder Futhark. Previously, the *fehu rune was used to transcribe both of these letters, a decision which was based on the fact that in German V can produce the phoneme /f/ as well as /v/. Now, the keys to transcribe W and V have no primary character anymore but two alternative characters: One is the *fehu rune, the other is the *wunjō rune which produces /w/, both of which are only approximations to /v/.
• User Interface:
- Visibility of hints was not updated properly.
- The position of the key popover was wrong in some situations.
- Some parts of the keyboards were not updated when the user interface style changed to dark mode or back from it.
- iOS's screen edge pan gesture recognisers interfered with keys near the edges of the screen.
NOTES:

The Younger Futhark and Anglon-Saxon keyboards are still in development and will be available in the next release. 1.1 07/25/2020 1.0 03/22/2020