Michael Everson wrote:

>
> 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.

Do you really not see that you're requiring the billions of
non-roman-users in the world to change their lifelong habits -- and
their centuries or millennia of cultural tradition -- for your
convenience?

Shift was devised for a particular quirk of contemporary roman,
cyrillic, and greek.

Option isn't used for any ordinary English characters, and Shift-Option
is an immense imposition on the typist.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...