GNU Typist 2.9 released

[Tim Marston]

We're pleased to announce GNU Typist 2.9.

This release contains several new features, the most important of which
is surely full UTF-8 support. Most GNU/Linux distributions now come with
terminals set to use UTF-8. This should fix the configuration problems
that non-US-ASCII users have been having.

This release also includes new lessons for the Colemak keyboard layout
(more info about Colemak available at http://colemak.com/), the facility
to track your personal best typing scores and several new translations.

Changes in 2.9:
    - Full UTF-8 support, by Felix Natter <address@hidden>
    - New Colemak typing lessons, by Tim Marston <address@hidden>
    - Many new international lessons imported from KTouch 1.6 and
      update of the German tipptrainer 0.6.0 lesson
    - New Spanish manual from smc <address@hidden>
    - Tracking of personal best scores, by Tim Marston
      <address@hidden>
    - New Polish translation, by Jakub Bogusz <address@hidden>
    - New Turkish translation, by Gökçen Eraslan <address@hidden>
    - We are dropping support for the DJGPP compiler (DOS), although the
      MinGW GCC compiler is still supported.

Sources for this release can be downloaded here:
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gtypist/gtypist-2.9.tar.gz

All stable releases can be found at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gtypist/.
Alternatively, http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gtyipst will automatically
redirect you to a nearby mirror.

Windows builds are available in the w32_binaries subdirectory.

About GNU Typist
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GNU Typist is a universal typing tutor for which tutorials can easily
be written.

You can find more about GNU Typist at the project's webpage:
  http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist

Project News
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We will be starting work towards gtypist 2.10.