At 08:46 -0400 2005-08-22, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> > 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.

The 48-key keyboard is more common these days, isn't it? In any case,
it's 48 x 4 with shift and option, and more with dead keys.
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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com