Michael Everson wrote:

>
> At 18:26 -0400 2005-08-21, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> > > Whoa! Unicode responds to language communities. There is no doubt
> > > about that. The problem is that language communities are complex
> > > entities.
> >
> >But one of Unicode's principals says they have to do romanization.
>
> I said no such thing, if I am the principal you refer to. I said that
> QWERTY is useful, and it is. There is QWERTY input available for
> Japanese, Chinese, Devanagari, Arabic, Hebrew, Cherokee, Armenian,
> Greek, and Inuktitut in the Mac OS. This is useful to many people.
> There are also other keyboard layouts available for these scripts,
> for people who may prefer that. (Not for Greek, which uses QWERTY as
> a standard.)

Most of the scripts you mentioned won't fit comfortably onto a 47-key
standard Mac keyboard.

OTOH, the usual Korean keyboard doesn't use some of the keys, so the
hardware could be smaller.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...