Re: Reduced Vai Repertoire

At 08:52 -0400 2005-08-22, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>Peter Constable wrote:
> >
> > > From: qalam@yahoogroups.com [mailto:qalam@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> > Of
> > > Peter T. Daniels
> >
> > > But one of Unicode's principals says they have to do romanization.
> >
> > Wherever did you get that idea?
>
>From his postings to qalam.

In any case, I didn't say that anyone "has to" do romanization. All
Vai speakers will have had access to the Latin script, however, so
it's not so bizarre to suggest that many of them might prefer a
QWERTY-based keyboard.

Nor is it obvious as to what a non-QWERTY Vai keyboard might look like.
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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com