For some reason, my keyboard likes to switch from QWERTY to Dvorak layout spontaneously, often while I'm changing windows. Usually, I don't notice this change until I start typing and see a meaningless string of characters spew forth.
But there must be some combination of keystrokes that produce valid English words for both layouts...
This small little script is meant to explore words common to both keyboard layouts. Just pass it in your dictionary file like so:
py explore.py dict.txt
it will read each line of the dictionary one by one, and look for corresponding words when typed in Dvorak.
Additionally, you can print the matches to a file by redirecting to stdout:
py explore.py dict.txt > matches.txt
I have included the Scrabble dictionary as a starter. You may find a plethora of other dictionary text files online just by searching. There is also one available on Unix systems: just type cat /usr/share/dict/words > words.txt and words.txt will contain your dictionary.
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