Re: Punctuation (was: Bopomofo keyboards in Taiwan)

At 03:33 +0000 2005-08-31, Richard Wordingham wrote:

>Quoth the man who under the Linnaean system would get his name after
>letters!

I don't follow that.

> > The brief is 340 characters.
>
>From whom?

From me. The brief I have is to make a keyboard specification that
will allow Vai users to access all of the Vai characters as well as a
set of useful punctuation and digits.

>Does it need 30 items of punctuation?

For optimal access to basic symbols used in arithmetic, in ordinary
typography (quotation marks, dashes). And some internet-specific
symbols (@, ~).
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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com