At 13:32 -0400 2005-08-22, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> > 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?

Apple ships a Devanagari keyboard layout drover which uses the
standard Mac hardware keyboard.

>Software keyboards that adapt the 47-key Mac hardware to typing Hindi
>are not Indian-friendly.

48-keys is the standard now, I believe, except on older machines in America.

And it's easy just to throw darts at Apple (or indeed Microsoft,
whose software also works on 48-key hardware). One wonders whether
any computer keyboard made in India has 70 keys on it. One would
expect, instead, that shift states would be used to enable a key to
input more than one letter.

Anyway, why not just try Apple's keyboard drivers and see for
yourself whether they are convenient?
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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com