Re: How about a typology for input methods

From: John Cowan
Message: 2868
Date: 2004-07-09

Peter T. Daniels scripsit:

> If the nine Indic scripts were isomorphic, a single keyboard would have
> served for all of them.

The English and the U.S. varieties of English are isomorphic, but a single
keyboard does not suffice for *them*.

In any case, as you were saying, the user should not need to care how the
encoding is done. Users do have to care about keyboard design.

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