Richard Wordingham wrote:

>
> --- 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.

Once again, what does all this business of how Unicode or computers
handle scripts have to do with _writing systems_?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...