--- "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
wrote:

> 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.

I don't think Michael or Unicode or anyone here
expressed a wish or is even capable of
prohibiting the vast number of Indian IT
companies or anybody else from developing
whatever kind of keyboard layout or entirely
new type of keyboard they think will be
useful.

Andrew Dunbar.

> --
> Peter T. Daniels
> grammatim@...
>

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