Michael Everson wrote:

>
> 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.

I'm 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?

Because on the ones I tried, Ecological's are better. Much better.

For _my_ purposes, i.e. inserting small amounts of text into an English
document.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...