At 08:59 -0400 2005-08-22, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>If your entire education -- through sixth grade, let's say -- had been
>in, say, Hindi, then QWERTY would be considerably less than ideal. I
>assume there are tens of millions of shopkeepers in India who might like
>to computerize their operations who have not had the opportunity and
>perhaps not the inclination to learn English.

And Apple ships both a Devanagari keyboard (based I suppose on an
Indian typewriter or Indian keyboard spec) as well as a
Devangari-QWERTY keyboard. So no problem.
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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com