Khmer keyboard

[1] While it has been interpreted as symbolic of postcolonial nationalisms consigned to "derivate status [...] at the level of both language and print",[2] adapting the typewriter was also a powerful way to a affirm Khmer culture as a weapon for independence rather than the machine guns which were being used by the Issarak.

[3] Industrial production of this typewriter began in 1955 in the Adler factories of West Germany while another similar machine was produced at the same time by Remington in the United States of America.

The layout for the more than 120 elements of Cambodian script and punctuation marks was a very difficult task because of the limitation to 46 keys and 96 positions of the standard typewriter.

[12]Mark Davis lamented that: ISO and Unicode have been working together on the standard for about 10 years, and there has been opportunity for the Cambodian government or individuals to be involved in the process.

[19] This was made possible through technical innovation with touchscreens providing an opportunity for more adaptive Khmer typing[20] as well as the financial support of telecom company Cellcard which launched a crowdfunding drive to finance the project.

Version 4.0 also introduced an additional block, called Khmer Symbols, containing 32 signs used for writing lunar dates.

The keyboard layout supports Roman to Khmer script input with automatic word division using deep learning.