--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Michael Everson <everson@...> wrote:

> At 01:29 +0000 2005-08-09, suzmccarth wrote:

> I would expect a keyboard to be able to access all the characters.
> There are not that many.

284 in the proposal. That seems a lot to me, even if you rely on the
digits on the keypad for numbers. You couldn't squeeze them all in
just using SHIFT and ALT-GR. CTRL and ALT are pretty well reserved to
applications. You may well have to resort to dead keys for the
diacritics, though they won't always be obvious - for keying, is it CU
or YU that is JU with a vertical pair of dots added?

The key stickers would be pretty cramped - 6 character per key! (4 Vai
and 1 or 2 ASCII characters marked.)

> >How does this contrast with other scripts in Unicode?
>
> Um. Suzanne, this question is not specific enough to answer.
>
> Any set may be subsetted.

CJK is probably the most heavily subsetted in terms of numbers omitted
characters.

And the 'Latin script' most heavily of all in terms of percentages.

Richard.