Re: How about a typology for input methods

John Cowan wrote:

>
> 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.

Hunh? They have something other than QWERTY? Substituting £ for $ is an
isomorphism.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...