From: Andrew Dunbar
Message: 5551
Date: 2005-08-25
> Michael Everson wrote:I don't think Michael or Unicode or anyone here
> >
> > 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.
> --http://en.wiktionary.org -- http://linguaphile.sf.net/cgi-bin/translator.pl
> Peter T. Daniels
> grammatim@...
>