Thanks, Peter, this is very helpful - glad you could save your money and
share the info. I've added the link to the "A12n" gateway page at
http://www.bisharat.net/A12N/#char .

Don Osborn
Bisharat.net

----- Original Message -----
From: <Peter_Constable@...>
To: <qalam@yahoogroups.com>; <unicode@...>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: ISO 6438, the Niamey keyboard, and ISO/TC46/SC4/WG1


>
> John Hudson wrote on 05/14/2003 12:07:25 PM:
>
> > I don't have details on hand, but the book in which I encountered the
> > Niamey keyboard layout is entitled _A Thesaurus of African Languages_
> > edited by Michael Mann and David Dalby (London. 1987). I note that there
> > are two copies currently offered for sale on www.abe.com.
>
> At US$100, I'm glad to find that the library on our center has a copy. The
> entire thing is done without capitals (except the title page, which the
> publisher would have done) in order to reinforce their idea that capitals
> aren't needed for the orthographies of African languages -- a bit of
> overkill, I think.
>
> Anyway, I've put info on this keyboard layout on the Web at:
>
>
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=IntlNiameyKybd
>
>
>
> - Peter
>
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