Re: How about a typology for input methods

Peter T. Daniels scripsit:

> Lloyd Anderson found, early on, that the nine aren't isomorphic (and you
> know how he loves to combine things)

I don't, actually. But lumpers and splitters are everywhere.

> -- he even had to devise different
> keyboards for both Kannada and Telugu. (Whereas his "Syllabics" keyboard
> that works for Linear B and Cherokee and Cuneiform is conceptually
> brilliant.)

Keyboard design is not closely tied to encoding design.

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