Michael Everson wrote:

>
> 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.

It has 55 keys for the letters, and 10 keys for the numbers, and a few
more for punctuation?

Software keyboards that adapt the 47-key Mac hardware to typing Hindi
are not Indian-friendly.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...