Michael Everson wrote:

>
> 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.

Yup, cultural imperialism.

> Nor is it obvious as to what a non-QWERTY Vai keyboard might look like.

Maybe like what Suzanne would like to have available for her Tamil and
Chinese (and Cree!) children.

It wasn't "obvious" to Percy Scholes, either, what an English keyboard
should look like -- and dozens of designs were patented.

As I said, I've seen a kana keyboard, with 50 + 10 + a few keys; a Vai
keyboard might need 200 or whatever keys, or there might be some
principle for doubling up.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...