Re: Vai

--- 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.