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

> At 18:23 -0400 2005-08-21, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> > > >And we see from the attitudes expressed here that they don't

give a damn

> >> >about "native" sensibilities.
> >>
> >> Nonesense. We work with the native communities. If you have a
> >> specific complaint, make it.
> >
> >You've already forgotten that you said everyone has to use a

QWERTY

> >keyboard and do their input via romanization?
>
> I didn't say that. I said that I think QWERTY keyboard layout
> software (or AZERTY keyboard layout software, say) should *always*

be

> provided because there are always people who are touch typists in
> Latin and who do not wish to have to switch from one keyboard

input

> method to another.

I would agree

>
> Apple ships "traditional" as well as QWERTY keyboards for Cherokee

Tell me about the traditional Cherokee keyboard. I haven't been able
to view it.

Suzanne

> and for Inuktitut. I designed these keyboards. Apple has shipped
> "traditional" as well as QWERTY keyboards for Hebrew, Arabic, and
> Indic scripts for many years.
>
> Unicode, by the way, does not specify keyboard layouts.
> --
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com