--- In
qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
wrote:
> 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...
> Once again, what does all this business of how Unicode or computers
> handle scripts have to do with _writing systems_?
In this particular case, it relates to the importance of identifying
a subsystem, that of Vai syllables actually in common use.
Methods of writing appear to be on topic; computer input methods are
explicitly on-topic.
The issue of input methods for Vai is interesting, for it is on the
boundary of small and large repertoires. Many different techniques
seem possible, and human factors loom large, I think much larger than
say in Chinese.
Richard.